Their great uncle was German politician Georg Ratzinger, a priest and social reformer who was a member of the Bavarian and Federal parliament.
Reported!
boycott
You are disgusting. Shame on you.
You might as well be fake news, since you can't report honestly.
Pathetic and sad.
Wow.
BIGOTED NEWS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LEFTISTS!
Buried down in paragraph 16: 'Though the Ratzinger family was anti-Nazi, Georg Ratzinger was enrolled into the Hitler Youth in 1941 at the age of 14.' Because membership was mandatory for all 14 year olds.
I expect next time a former American soldier from WW2 dies you will say “fought on the communist side of WW2”
Despicable headline written with cowardice.
What a joke of a headline. Probably part of the team that phrased the killing of al baghdadi as “austere religious scholar”...
All young people during Hitler times were drafted. How insidious and lousy reporting.
The Daily Mail were editorially sympathetic to the Nazis and the British Union of Fascists.
Do some research.
At least he fought for his country like every able bodied German male of his generation. The parents of the idiot that wrote that piece were shitting their pants under some bed.
Disgusting article. Ratzinger, like all young men in Germany at that time, was FORCED to join the Nazi Party. And you know it! This is a smear job if ever there was one!
Hello, this is a special announcement that your journalism card has been revoked. That is all.
Writes Daily Mail journalist who fights for the devil.
What an awful and ridiculous headline. Do you write headlines like “John, who lives next to abortion doctors, went to the supermarket” or “Bob, friend of serial killers in his youth, gets a haircut”?
Still no comment from alicecachia regarding her disgusting comments slandering a person far greater than she after he had just died. Cowardice.
What an egregious headline. The Ratzinger’s opposed the Nazis as did many Catholics, most notably Bishop Von Galen. Ironically enough, the Daily Mail explicitly supported the Nazi regime.
Pathetic headline.
What an appallingly stupid and offensive headline
... to check again
Maybe come back ...
Turned up to be nice Ratio
Saw the Ratio
Came to see the ratio
You’re truly pathetic!
Why didn't someone tell him the war was over?
Here for the ratio.
The worst thing about news media going online, and the death of print, is that it’s a lot harder to use the Daily Mail as toilet paper. (But, then, using shit to wipe away shit is probably counter-productive.)
God bless him.
What an awful calumny to place on a man on the day of his death. Lord have mercy on us.
Anyway I’m sure a certain pair of princesses are dressed in black atm RobinWa01061978
Daily mail, this is repulsive. Not not surprised
Vicious and hypocritical (if unsurprising) coming from the Mail
Nasty headline. He was FORCED to fight for the nazis, hecwas a German young man. Idiots!
there just isn't any reason to hate this man! rest in peace.
What a ridiculous headline. Unlike the 1930s editor of the mail (who supported Hitler) Pope Benedict's brother was anti-Nazi. He was, however, conscripted into the German army, like most other young men of his time.
Whoever wrote this headline deserves to be punched in the face. Still not surprised, coming from this outlet.
Wow what misinformed bias. Typical of progressives: Smear the conservatives with fake news.
Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.
The candle with the image of st Micheal, blessed in front of the relic of st Oliver Plunket at the Crypt of English martyrs, for two Ratzinger brothers. Yesterday the Feast day of st Oliver Plunket the same day Mgsr George went to heaven. Let ask intercession of st Micheal!
He tired
Daily mail online posting fake news what a disgrace. Abhorrent . Demonic attack on Ratzinger's bothers
Commenting for the ratio after you doubled down. Yall literally favored the Nasis back in the day
Ain't you the people that said that immigrants cause cancer?
The Orans prayer posture predates the Nazi salute by about 3000 years (give or take a millennia).
You guys are garbage
This just in: writers at The Daily Mail, posing as journalists, take cheap shots at the memory of the recently deceased Msgr. Ratzinger. Note to writers — the picture posted depicts the Frs. Ratzinger giving their priesly blessing, you frickin’ boneheads.
Do you think the nazis would have taken no for an answer when they conscripted him into the military?
Reminder that the DMO is actually a cancerous stain on humanity.
E D G E L O R D
Clickbait. Lack of integrity.
This ain’t it chief
Vulgar headline. Monsignor Ratzinger would have been no older than 21 at the end of WW2.
F
Disgusting headline.
This is absolutely disgusting. You should be ashamed of this slanderous nonsense.
These kinds of swipes are not uncommon in British media for which any day is Guy Fawkes Day.
You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Imagine telling your friends you worked for the Daily Mail and that you write headlines like this
As if conscription wasn't enacted across the planet? Disgusting and vile click-bate. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen.
DMO Fire this reporter for his/her ignorance.
Unlike the English football team though, I don't think he ever gave the Nazi salute
You are disgusting and completely transparent
Good man.
'Austere Islamic scholar who was forced by the white oppression to stab to death two evil pedestrians was unjustly shot by brutal policemen.'
Reminder not to click the article when your rationing, it gives them revenue.
Lying about him while his body is still warm, and his family is grieving him. Filthy.
Early contender for the top spot on SirajAHashmi's next list
Vile slander
Why does the media hesitate to put befitting labels when talking about certain people but has no hesitation when talking about others? 🤔 Sure if this article was about a Mid-easterner or a BlK person who'd committed crimes, the title wld say terrorist or thug. Why not nazi here?
Says the daily mail who had sympathies for the Nazis in the 30s
Forgive me, I forget - what exactly was the Daily Mail's take on the Nazis during the 30s?
Disgusting headline.
Wow.
This is a horrible take. Outright lie!
imagine going to hell over a tweet
Look at this defamatory headline!
Crap of a headline
This is a shameful headline to write.
It takes all of five minutes of research to demonstrate the Ratzinger family’s anti-Nazi bona fides. But I guess that would be too much work for this trash newspaper. Shame on you.
Daily fail
Graceless and manipulative headline. Just awful.
Ironically , you're the ones using Goebbels-level dishonesty with that headline.
delete this
What a disgusting headline.
He was a priest in Germany for how many years? And you attack him when? After he dies... right. Got it.
He was a teenager drafted against his will. A despicable headline.
Delete this
Shame on you Daily Mail. 😤
Sure, let's blame the child soldier forced into service by the draft.
Here for the ratio. This take sucks.
Here for the ratio. This is the Worst Take
By Press Association and Alice Cachia For Mailonline Just in case anyone wondering
Journalism had been dead for quite a while, but this is just vile.
Wow, that’s a shitty headline.
Tasteless, children of darkness
fcuk off journos
Claims to be a new outlet...😂😂😂
Ah, so I can uninstall your app. Got it.
Vile crap.
Outrageous headline. What absolute mendacity.
Log off.
You are sick
What a disgraceful headline. Get stuffed.
Newspaper that promoted Nazism and Hitler reports death of man forced to fight for Hitler as a child.
Man. Y’all suck at reporting
That headline is straight up bullsht.
In case there was any doubt left, this proves real journalism has disappeare. This headline shows ignorance, however, is alive and well at this rag.
SirajAHashmi ✍✍✍✍✍✍✍✍✍
the author of this article serves satan.
What jerks you are.
This headline is absolutely criminal. Have you no shred of human decency?
Delete this headline.
Delete this.
Your anti-Catholic bias is showing again
Are you freaking kidding, DM? An 18-year-old conscript 78 years ago, and that's your headline? Big time Nazi military guy, eh? Göring, Keitel, Raeder, Rommel, Donitz... and Georg Ratzinger. Got it.
Fake news.
Oddly, when Günter Grass (who served in the Waffen-SS, no less) died in 2015, the Daily Mail only managed to work the Nazi reference into the subheader.
lol what if you want to assert this you have to say this about literally EVERY GERMAN TEENAGER during world war ii.
Monstrous headline.
I bet you feel real proud of yourself for that headline
What a bull shit headline. He was conscripted as a boy for Pete’s sake.
Wow. Terrible journalism here. Ratio this mess!
Some people carry a grudge for 1000s OF YEARS!
You mean HE FOUGHT for his COUNTRY! SHOW RESPECT JERKS!
Like he had a choice.
This headline is the product of foolish ignorance.
Repulsive headline. Shame on you, Daily Mail!
Have you no shame?
Truly garbage headline.
You're. LIARS.
The article itself is not too bad but it is very clear from it that the headline is deliberately malicious, salacious and misleading. Shame on whomever wrote the headline. Have the article's authors any views on the headline attached to their names? alicecachia
Typical anti-Catholic rhetoric. 🐑🐑🐑
Only that? Thank goodness, i thought he was a writer for the daily mail.
Shame on you for that headline.
Skanky, dishonest tweet.
I think you mean, fought for his country.
Get bent
What is wrong with you? Do you think that Germans at the time had a choice? Germans and their families were killed by the Nazis if they didn’t join them. Please learn more about history and stop trying to slander a dead man.
You are beneath contempt
The Nazi supporting newspaper is doing what nazi newspapers do best control the narrative and use disinformation. Everybody else is telling how you did that. 👇
And you people wonder why no one trusts the media anymore.
Despicable dishonesty And manipulation in your headline.
This is a pathetic excuse for journalism. The Ratzinger family suffered greatly (the National Socialists even killed one of Pope Benedict's cousin's because he had Down's Syndrome) as stringent anti-National Socialists. Delete your account.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
The daily mail vocally supported fascism
What a disgustingly mendacious headline. The Ratzinger family was notoriously anti-Nazi. But you’d know that if you cared about such a thing as truth.
They actually fled and escaped the Nazi youth, never heard of the daily mail until now. FakeNews
Could you just not?
Absolutely disgusting headline.
Disgusting headline
Slander
Dear oh dear ! People had no choice in Germany unlike your newspaper who supported the Nazis.
Here for the ratio.
Based.
Nobody misses the Nazi pope. Only the DM reports on him and his sleezy ways undermining the current pope.
'Fought for the Nazis' lol Was a German man born in a certain generation. Means nothing about his character
Disgusting smear from the Nazi supporting rag. Who was conscripted by the German Army .... if it need be said at all of a man who led a life devoted to Christ and music.
He literally got drafted as a kid
This is yet another low-point of you. Delete this.
So much journalisming
Stfu
R.I.P.
This headline is demonic and misleading. The editor should be fired for letting it being published. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.
You know that thing where people say 'piss off, wanker' to rude people in the UK? That.
Yes!!! What interesting news!!! I couldn’ sleep because of it!!
He was drafted to fight for them, you orwellian hacks
You always see that in that kind of newspapers: sitting on the chair of the judge, the prosecutor and the hang man.
Horrific click-bate headlines, on the other hand, never die.
Liar
I’ll pray for whoever wrote this.
Yes, and I suppose every American conscripted into the army is guilty of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What a disgraceful headline.
Way to be a piece of shit, Daily Mail.
Yeah, a thing called conscription
Of course, this a lie.
May he rest in the peace of our lord.
Shame
Ah yes demonizing a conscript whose brother even deserted the army because of their opposition to its ideology
Mail are wrong so wrong.
I'm sorry, does no one over at your sorry publication know the word 'conscripted'?
To whomever wrote this: you dirty liar
Bless him
This is disgusting. He was involuntarily conscripted. Delete your account and then go repent
He was forcefully conscripted into service as a teenager, along with every other teenager in Germany during WWII. Please have the decency and good journalistic integrity to delete this.
daily mail decided that ppl don`t despise journos enough...
Was that really necessary? He was drafted against his will.
Yep, disgusting headline.
Wow. This is yellow journalism. For shame.
*Unwillingly drafted by the Nazis. There I fixed it for you
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine. Et lux perpetua luceat eis. Fidelium animae, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace. Amen.
'Retired Pope Benedict's ailing brother who fought for the Nazis [because he was forced to] dies aged 96,' reports the news organization that actually supported the Nazis
He was a Military Conscript drafted as a teenager, this is disgraceful. Eternal Rest Grant unto Georg Ratiznger O’ Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
What’ disgusting headline...who wrote this? A high schooler? the Mail should be ashamed.
Oh fuсk you, he was a conscript.
Lived for 96 years and that was the only detail of his bio anyone saw fit to print?
We pray for those whose slanderous words bring unrest and division. Amen.
The media is the worst
Is the 'journalist' who selected this headline (and photo) willing to publicly admit it... and explain why? I doubt it.
The left and news media hate Christians and want them dead. This is the lesson we should all learn from this piece. I pray for the repose of Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, may his soul be at rest.
If he didn't fight 'for the Nazis' he and his family would have been killed
This ain't it, chief.
Lmao literally all the comments are based
Requiescat En Pace.
What an evil thing to say.
holysmoke does that mean you will never wrote for the Mail again ? What would the late W.Oddie, ex of the Mail, make of it ?
Again smoking rugs ?
Learn to code.
Ridiculous headline given that he was drafted as a teenager so I'm just here for the ratio,
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Scum Mail
Delete your account
RosaryCurse
*Smh*
Utter disgrace. Anti Catholicism. If only that meant to you as much as say ‘anti semitism’. Who wrote this tweet you deserve to be fired
Daily mail is total 💩💩💩
Yes forced to fight when he was a kid, garbage publication 💩💩💩
What the fuck is wrong with you
What a vile e-rag the Daily Mail is.
I too blame child soldiers when they get drafted
May whoever wrote and approved this headline get cancer and live long enough to see a cure for cancer and the day after they are cured from cancer get Ebola.
change this disgusting headline
Obvious anti-Catholicism on display. Disgusting headline.
Yeah, that’s the most notable thing about him, that he was conscripted like most of his generation, you disingenuous hacks.
Go, and I can't stress this enough, **** yourself
You people disgust me
i, too, love to put the blame on people for being drafted as teenagers
Disgusting headline. Boycott
The thing is, like many devout German Catholics, the Ratzinger family was opposed to Nazism. Unlike the Rothermere family...
So he's not an austere religious scholar?
Journos are the enemy of the people
Disgusting headline.
Molotov!
Anti-Catholic hatred from the Daily Mail.
Blessed be God!
Hope whoever wrote the headline gets a walloping. Eternal rest to Georg Ratzinger, Lord have him.
Who was 👉forced like all germans of their time into compulsory military service by the nazis you mean! Anti-catholic bile!
Have you no shame or sense of irony you absolute scumbags. The man is dead and you seek to defame him even now, despite the fact that your rag openly supported fascists.
Predictably disgusting.
Appalling headline.
A disgusting headline DM. Practically every able-bodied man of his generation in Germany was conscripted to fight in World War II.
Written by the Daily Mail - which fully supported Hitler & Mussolini until it became awkward...
Shame on you. That's a disgraceful headline. I spend a lot of my time remonstrating w ppl who are rude about the Mail, but perhaps they are right after all.
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