[lentulusgracchus]

I think the intellectual history of the rise of National Socialism and locating it correctly on the continuum of socialist and nationalist (and supranationalist, pan-German) political theory could be improved on here, but this article has the advantage of having been written by an eyewitness, a former Hitlerjugend member. (Remember, Pope Benedict was also in the Hitler Youth, and he was likewise conscribed into a Luftwaffe flak formation. He therefore knows something about the workings and foundations of the godless totalitarian state.)

[Wilhelm Tell]

An infirm relative of the young Ratzinger was taken by the Nazis and killed. This was during a run-up to the Holocaust where Germans who had chronic illnesses were “euthanized” by the state. So Pope Benedict knows what it is like when a death cult takes over a country. The West is fortunate to have a leader like Benedict, who is fighting today’s culture of death that is a direct descendant of Naziism.