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Years later, the teenage Joseph Ratzinger enrolled in the Hitler Youth movement, a Nazi paramilitary organization with compulsory membership.
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As a young German he joined Hitler Youth at the age of 14, as was mandatory at the time.
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There are great expectations for what the German Pope, who served - although unwilling - in the Hitler Youth, will say.
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Ratzinger wrote in his memoirs that school officials enrolled him in the Hitler Youth movement against his will when in 1941, when he was 14.
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The Pioneers are the communist version of the Hitler Youth.
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We, his grandchildren, knew him as papa, and he knew us as the Hitler Youth - you didn't think his amazing turn of phrase just went to rugby did you?
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Pope Benedict's own (admittedly non-voluntary) war-time membership of the Hitler Youth has hardly helped to convince sceptical Jews that the Catholic church is sincere in its efforts to mend fences.
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His immediate predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, came of age in Nazi Germany and, like other people of his generation, was a member of the Hitler Youth and served in the German military.
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Pope Benedict, who was born in Germany and forced to join the Hitler Youth as a teenager, has spoken out forcefully against the Holocaust on several occasions, including on a visit to the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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The family considered itself fully assimilated, but after the Nazi annexation of Austria, in 1938, Mischel remembers being taunted in school by the Hitler Youth and watching as his father, hobbled by childhood polio, was forced to limp through the streets in his pajamas.
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The impact of the images of Muslim kids brandishing weapons, marching in goosestep and giving stiff-armed salutes in mass demonstrations underscores a point made in the film by the late Alfons Heck, a former Hitler Youth Group leader in Nazi Germany: Islamofascism is really just the latest in a series of totalitarian ideologies bent on the destruction of the Free World.
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