erstwhile Hitler Youth!
Yes, you complete and utter pillock, Joseph Ratzinger was formally enrolled in the Hitler Youth, but by the he early 1940s, membership was legally compulsory for all German boys. He did not join out of conviction. Moreover, he did not participate in activities or meetings of HY and his refusal to take part cost him a state scholarship he was otherwise entitled to. Maybe it had something to do with the atmosphere of the house he grew up in - his father was openly critical of the Nazi regime and, as a consequence, he was repeatedly passed over for promotion within the Bavarian police and was transferred multiple times to less desirable posts as a punitive measure.
Both young Joseph Ratzinger and his father showed quiet (personal nonconformity in Nazi totalitarianism was neither easy nor safe) but principled resistance against Hitler and the Nazis, both of them at personal cost. So, next time show more respect for the greatest Pope of our times and - I am sure of it - future Doctor of the Church.

