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1939: Joseph Ratzinger enters the minor seminary
In 1939, Joseph entered the minor seminary in Traunstein, between Munich and Salzburg, where the Ratzinger family had lived since 1937. Only a few months later, the war broke out. The young man was forced to return home to attend school, as the seminary had become a military hospital.
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