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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI, who was forced to join the Hitler Youth as a child, has made a rare mention of life in Germany under the Nazis, calling it a “dark time.”
The 84-year-old, German- born pontiff turned his thoughts to 70 years ago, a time “already marked by war.” Benedict said, “It looked like the continent was in the hands of this power, which put the future of Christianity in doubt.”
Benedict was speaking during an audience Saturday at the Vatican with members of a German Catholic group in Regensburg, which he entered as a 14-year-old boy.
