On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:10:33 +0000 (UTC), Juliana L Holm
wrote:

Ingeborg Denner wrote:

Ratzinger is educated, intelligent, most likely not
deluded and has some sense of humour. He's also
a hardline reactionary. And Bavarian. Hitler wasn't
any of those.

Hitler started his political growth in Bavaria.

That said, Ratzinger was drafted into the German Army during World War 2 and
defected, so I think that the connection is inappropriate.

He went AWOL in April 1945, 3 years after he joined, so it was hardly
some deep seated idealogical view against shooting at allied bombers
etc. It was simply that his side had lost and the war was going to be
over in a few weeks - lots of people were deserting!

Jim.