THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 79, sig. 110-3/19

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(St.M. III A - 20 1 e/44 g. Prague, 10 October 1944. h seb lödosia Teb "f fotq " V... oeto sasb niemiie dsed etwos -taßtqeteete sob tatirodua eib N -Tetnv nreiet onotldoril Seheim CUOLE ns al -tnesow dous orotkx enoelfon TOJGU 1063 eItve meb ns li esroèH .TT ildirgedad bejorey unter: esoib Tedny . 1910uhe -Anobed Tin KR-FS: netiedlatre wioe 1On mdi -Ied Dringend! Immediate presentation! easb eStdotsmi reb titloi To Mr. -019 Ministerial Director Professor Dr.Mentzel,oaset biw Berlin, BTe Bilr doe nonte bru LL0LC_GBGUGN Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, reg iusreid GE Erziehung und Volksbildung.igeex vitsgon bnedo 3HUT ol edsr etiearebna efoataolcorit-doetl ettteed Dear Party comrade Dr. Mentzel bbutesigolon t Jn der Prage der Schließung der I have sent the following telex to Mr. nov gäveasl Reichsminister and head of the Reich Chancellery Dr. Lammers -e2 mebnemdo: "The Reich Minister sib oie etti for Science, Education and People's Education has informed me that in the course of the limitations of the higher education system nelloeitifoq with regard to scientific universities in the Protectorate, among others. It is planned to close the teaching of the Catholic-Fous nnew , theological faculty of the German Charles University Prague -iteed nebri . This planning is a foreign "nebiemzevsprechte". This policy must therefore be assessed not only from a technical point of view or from a total use of war -eu reds,* but above all from the point ofview of the Reichspolitik in Bohemia and Moravia. The Catholic Church in the Protectorate is a factor which must be reckoned with in terms of influence on the Czech population and which I have repeatedly demonstrated politically in a positive sense.