I read he had to do it or be killed. Anyway the whole Church remained pretty silent about Hitler’s treatment of Jews because it didn’t want Hitler to start persecuting Catholics in retaliation. So I doubt that it matters much that the pope also protected himself since that’s what the Church did for itself.
Just a technicality: not all Nazis were members of the Nazi Party.
Ralphinal,you mean not all Germans were members of the Nazi Party.Which is the same for the Russian people. Not all of them were members of the communist party.What do you suppose we do with the man, hook him up to a lie detector test and zap the **** out of him even it remotely looks like he is lying?
Maybe he was an evil Nazi. Apostle Paul once liked to see Christians killed.
Saint Matthew was an extorting tax collector by his own will. Did he change? Simon (Peter) was a sinful, coarse, profane fisherman by his own will. Did he change? Saul of Tarsus (Saint Paul) was an elite Pharisee who held the cloaks of those who stoned Saint Stephen the Martyr, by his own will. Did he change? Christ came to call not the righteous, but sinners. Test them by their actions after repentance.
But others read the thread too. When they see a nice solid refutation of trolling, it is a witness to the faith. Thus, the troll is doubly foiled!
I did mean that. I also meant that not everyone who wore a swastika was a member of the Nazi party. I cannot remeber at this time, but the “true” members of the party were not a majority. Even smaller if you only include the origional members and their families, especially after Hitler started killing them.
It says he was forced into the military towards the end of WW2.
This was when they needed men and yes even recruited young men of the Hitler Youth as fighters.
While there were Nazis in the German Military,there were many soldiers and officers who didnot belong to the party.Before the famous plot to assinate Hitler that was carried out by Count von Stauffenberg ,there were earlier plots to get rid of Hitler,with some of the conspirators amongst the generals.
If the pope was a member of the Hitler Youth it was because he may have been coerced into it. Before Hitler came up with the death camps,he started the concentration camps were he put anyone the Nazis didn’t like.Gays, communisists,potilical opponets,etc. into.
You had neighbors spying on neighbors,etc.
Ordinary germans disappeared,sometimes they went to the camps and others were never found.
And as Ralphinal says,can’t people change through God’s Grace?