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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 03:26 PM Original message |
Did Ratzinger ever kill any Allies in WWII? |
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Kellanved (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. He stated in his memoirs that he had never fired a shot. |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 03:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. OK... |
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Kellanved (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 03:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. that includes the battery |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 03:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. He was a legal combatant...that's what combatants do. |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 03:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. How many innocent Iraqis did your tax dollars kill? |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. How many protests against wars have you been in? |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
24. Maybe a man who lived through war has a far better perspective on it |
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dhinojosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-05 10:01 AM Response to Reply #24 |
55. I don't have to swim through shit to know it smells bad. nt |
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atreides1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 03:43 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Kind of Hard to believe this. |
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jedr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
3. although this man is going to be very Conservative: |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Right, IT WAS A WAR |
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atreides1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:08 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. His Religious Leanings???? |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Neither was the Lutheran Church |
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jedr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:16 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. your putting words in my mouth; |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
5. Paging Bill O'Reilly... |
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malmapus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
8. He really can't be blamed for being in the military at that time |
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atreides1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:19 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. It is an unfair title |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:15 PM Response to Reply #8 |
31. Well, as it so happens... |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
15. Are there any records that verify his desertion story? |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:48 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. This wasn't the Third Reich of the thirties... |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-05 11:52 AM Response to Reply #21 |
56. The terror bombing of Dresden was in Feb. 1945 |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
17. Let's do a bit of research, shall we? |
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Adenoid_Hynkel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:35 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. good research |
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jedr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:48 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I think I'm starting to agree with post #5......n/t |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:07 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. A few more links... |
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Kellanved (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:37 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. ahem |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:53 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Yes, a little bit of historical perspective here, folks. |
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Kathryn7 (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 04:57 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. He also deserted his post a year before the end of the war. |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:02 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Zactly...hardly a hardcore "to the death" Nazi |
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LiberallyInclined (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:05 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. although- not exactly a "to the death christian", either |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:10 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Do you view every German soldier in the 30s and 40s this way? |
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LiberallyInclined (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:18 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. only the ones who would be "holy"... |
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El Supremo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:35 PM Response to Reply #28 |
37. I can forgive any German who regrets what he did in WWII. |
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malmapus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:59 PM Response to Reply #28 |
40. delete dupe |
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malmapus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 06:00 PM Response to Reply #28 |
41. Exactly |
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Love Bug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-05 09:09 AM Response to Reply #28 |
50. Thank you! My father felt the same way you do |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:13 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Guess staying alive in wartime disqualifies you for the papacy, then |
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LiberallyInclined (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:20 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. well, apparently NOT standing up to evil doesn't... |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:24 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. And you are doing exactly what to 'fight' the GOP, right now? |
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LiberallyInclined (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:37 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. I didn't know that i was under consideration to lead the Democratic Party. |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:41 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Don't be honored, really... |
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LiberallyInclined (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 06:13 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. i'm not fat.... |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 06:22 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. No offense intended, personally, it's an expression. |
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LiberallyInclined (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 06:28 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. In 1937 Ratzinger's father retired and the family moved to Traunstein... |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 06:43 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Why didn't EVERYBODY leave? eom |
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LiberallyInclined (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 06:51 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. ummm....because they were nazi's or nazi supporters? |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-05 08:54 AM Response to Reply #47 |
49. You're right...all those persecuted and ordinary citizens were Nazis too. |
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ianrs (121 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-05 09:34 AM Response to Reply #26 |
51. and so? |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:11 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. Well there seems to be some confusion as to what his job really was... |
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Kellanved (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:22 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. apparently |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 05:23 PM Response to Reply #17 |
35. I think it's ironic that the church which worships martyrs ... |
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Kathryn7 (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 06:30 PM Response to Reply #35 |
45. Desertion is punishable by death. He just wasn't caught. |
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cajones_II (149 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-05 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
48. I never realized he was guarding a BMW plant |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-05 09:43 AM Response to Reply #48 |
52. A BMW plant that used slave labor n/t |
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malmapus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-05 09:59 AM Response to Reply #48 |
54. he wasn't "guarding" it. Flak would of been setup in the surrounding area |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-20-05 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
53. 666 |
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