washingtonpost.com - Central EuropeCentral EuropePope's Home Town Went Along, but Not Always- May 8, 2005 When Nazi Party leaders in this predominantly Catholic town in southern Germany decreed in 1941 that all crucifixes be removed from the walls of school classrooms, nearly 2,000 women signed a petition in protest.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7751-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/ce... An Idyllic Setting for Boy Who Would Become Pope- May 8, 2005 TRAUNSTEIN, Germany, April 20 -- The Ratzinger family lived in a modest farmhouse at the far edge of this southern German town with a clear view of soaring pine trees and the majestic, snow-capped Bavarian Alps. Each day, Joseph, who was 12, and his older brother Georg hiked a half hour across town to St. Michael's Seminary, where both excelled at their studies.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6077-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/ce... |