What do you call an ex-Hiltler Youth who becomes Pope O'Rome and asks this question?
Pope Benedict XVI visited the Auschwitz concentration camp as "a son of the German people" Sunday and asked God why he remained silent during the "unprecedented mass crimes" of the Holocaust.
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"In a place like this, words fail; in the end, there can be only a dread silence, a silence which itself is a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?"
Benedict said that just as his predecessor, John Paul II visited the camp as a Pole in 1979, he came as "a son of the German people."
And an ex-Nazi. I think that's called Chutzpah. To the max.
posted by Jo Fish on 05.29.06 at 11:03 AM
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Sure! Blame it on God! The question is why did the German people allow this to happen?
http://www.nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm
posted by: mantega on 05.30.06 at 09:17 AM [permalink]
