You may have seen the news. Hitler Youth past is denied by Pope on trip hit by row over Holocaust - Times Online * Considering HJ membership was compulsory this denial seems to be quite a revision of history.....but what's new? ** an interesting historical interpretation - especially as these units were part and parcel of the whole system *** actually HJ membership was made compulsory before the beginning of the war and an article in 2005 The New York Times > AP > International > New Pope Defied Nazis As Teen During WWII
By golly he was busy! Pope was 'never in Hitler Youth' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)