Reply #138: From the Times article cited in the OP: [View All]

[PassingFair]

"Two years later Ratzinger was enrolled in an anti-aircraft unit that protected a BMW factory making aircraft engines. The workforce included slaves from Dachau concentration camp.

Ratzinger has insisted he never took part in combat or fired a shot — adding that his gun was not even loaded — because of a badly infected finger. He was sent to Hungary, where he set up tank traps and saw Jews being herded to death camps. He deserted in April 1944 and spent a few weeks in a prisoner of war camp."


...If he was not army, he was police. It is amazing what "regular" Germans participated in. Read "Hitler's Willing Executioners, Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust".