It's OK fellas...I'm Jewish and I'm still alive, aren't I? Besides, there could only be two reasons they would've picked a Pope from Germany:<br /><br />1- Either he experienced the Holocaust the same way JPII did.<br />2- Or he was a part of the Hitler Youth or something of the sort and had to suffer the humiliation of guilt afterwards.<br /><br />Either one would have worked for me, as a matter of fact when I heard the Pope was German I speculated it would be the second reason - apparently I'm right. Nothing to fear from him at all, really.