On Sun, 17 May 2015 22:02:09 -0400, Bob Taylor <news@windstream.net> wrote:
>DAN wrote:
>> Bob Taylor wrote:
>>> Ratzinger was born 16 Apr 1927 which would make him 13 in 1940 and 18
>>> at the end of the war. This person looks considerably older than
>>> that. Ratzinger admitted being a "German Youth", but that was
>>> obligatory.
>>
>> It is not so obvious that the person is much older than 18 on the photo. But
>> indeed I hear you.
>> Anyway, the source of that picture is the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and it is
>> available at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC:
>> http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?ModuleId=10005206&MediaId=577
>>
>> for the id of Ratzinger, (use firefox, chrome chokes on it):
>> https://decryptedmatrix.com/flash-photo-catholic-bishops-give-nazi-salute-notice-pope-benedict-at-center/
>>
>> If you do a picture search on it, is weird that all the sites that associate
>> Ratzinger with the photo are somehow difficult to reach. Surely the
>> conspirationists would have something to say about why.
>
>The problem is not the picture, but the identification. If the
>picture was taken in the thirties, looks like it, he would be less
>than 13. If this is the kind of crap the holocaust museum puts out, I
>may have to reconsider my position on holocaust denial.
If you examine the links provided, you will see the holocaust museum did not
identify the center person in the picture as being Ratzinger. The ID came from
a conspiracy / truther web site.
It is quite obvious from this photo slide show, the center person could not be
Ratzinger.
http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-20960383
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