Don’t mention the Pope’s Hitler Youth past, says the Vatican
Posted on: September 11, 2009No comments yet
Even though the 82-year-old German pontiff has admitted in numerous interviews that he was drafted unwillingly into the Nazi youth movement towards the end of the war, his spokesman came up with another version.
“The Pope was never in the Hitler Youth, never, never, never,” Father Federico Lombardi, chief spokesman for the Pope, told a press conference in Jerusalem.
