Reply #87: Elizabeth Lohner was 6 years older than Ratzinger, she was an adult.

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Ratzinger was a child. In order to become a "conscientious objector" you have to be at least 18 years old (conscription age). When Ratzinger was 18 years old, he deserted (at considerable personal risk as many deserters were shot by the SS).

Leonhard Lohner (1901-1961) spent 9 years in prisons and concentration camps.

He was a communist.

As was Hans Braxenthaler, a local leader of the KPD.

I can't see how Ratzinger, as a child, could have hidden communist resistance fighters. He was 10 years old when Braxenthaler died. His father certainly could have helped them, but you can't blame that on the child.