THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 310, sig. 110-4/156

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54 2 Of course, the main reasons why Rosenberg, Goebbels and Himmler, and even the SS's main functionaries, wank the war are internal politics, it should serve to employ the people once again politically and to create a possibility, to explain the state of siege, which would then make it possible to intensify the struggle against the Catholic Church and also against the Protestant churches, to confiscate the church property under the title of a foreign power, which interferes in deutse conditions in a hostile manner. On the other hand, I was informed that it had been published that the largest landowner in Germany was the catholized district (about 400,000 ha), then the Hohenzollern family (280,000 ha) and then the city of Berlin (about 92.0oo ha). Pro- paganda is made, that the Catholic Church, which is in contact with the German people, does not have the right to have so much German soil in the country. SS officials propagate the so-called "small war", which would not threaten Germany for internal political conditions and thus imagine a war against √42 Valencia or e.g. Against Czechoslovakia, we are able to secure the neutrality of Yugoslavia and Romania. They believe that England, as in the case of Almeria, would not risk a war, especially if it were only a short war. About France, the SS officials judge that this is the case. Ribbentrop is said to have invited 30 main SS officials to London for a festive coronation so that they could get to know the world power ~ f12 fadoide England.The success of the journey with these, however, 0 primitive people, was supposed to have been surprising. The assembled masses from all over the world, from all their Dominions, did not impress them, who of course could not speak English. That the meeting of the NsDAP on 1 May in Berlin or of the German peasant people on the Bicleberg was much more beautiful, that everywhere a "straight lead" had been missing, that a real "poliżeiliche Absprärung" had chosen, so that it was possible that the people did not keep the footing line at the coronation train, but entered the road. It was still ridiculous, /*