I don't know a whole lot about this pope, yet; and I am completely neutral on this, but I will say that at the time the current pope was a Hitler Youth all German youth were forced to be join. Also, I've heard that during the war, he disagreed so strongly, that he went AWOL and that that is the reason he initially went into priesthood.
I'm not saying that this is a good basis to become a priest, but supposedly he was very much against his nazi upbringing. Perhaps that's what made him want to be a priest.
Cheers,
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