A Deserter from the Wehrmacht

By Bill Day on April 19, 2005 11:32 PM | | Comments (0)

Catholic World News (CWN)

[Ratzinger] was born in Germany on April 16, 1927, which was Holy Saturday that year, and baptized at the Easter Vigil services. His seminary training was interrupted by World War II, when he was inducted into the German army, deserted, and was briefly interned in an American POW camp.

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