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

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55 3 that the 'organisers on the streets did not have any special telephone lines, but were on 4 of them in historical costumes, in order to communicate in time about directional needs to each other. They did not understand the fact that the English democratic people did not need "police containment measures" and that this is the expression of the power of a people, and they expressed the view that it was an empire that had become weak and without a purposeful leadership. The leaders of the SS looked at the 'conservations in Czechoslovakia with little preude. They do not call the Czechs' understanding of the Czechoslovak Germans, because they always want to have the possibility of disposing of the Czechoslovakian Germans, also against the Czecho-Slovak government, both in the Priede and in the war. Therefore, they are not welcome to agree between Czechs and Germans, even if this would be in favour of the Czechoslovak Germans. b) Religious affairs. The members of the ss are forbidden to be a member of a church at the same time (allegedly since 1 October 1 936). This prohibition is also to be extended to the main functionaries of the "NSDAP and much later on to the Reich officialship at all. One. known lady told me the case of a girl (who was the bride of an SS man) and that when she learned that her marriage was not blessed and that even her children were not allowed to be baptized, she thought it out of the "round and, of course, also at the pressures of the family, broke off the engagement. Rippentrop, as a member of the SS, left the church with his old family. He therefore had inconveniences A fs) in England, where the children as heathens were allegedly not allowed to enter the English visions. As Mrs Ribbentrop, the 1p0,tt her residence in Dablem, d.i. In the church district of the well-known priest Niemöller, he explained that she intended to return to the Kirähe, she was supposed to have asked Niemöller about the reasons and when Mrs. R. replied that it was political green, Nienöller refused the return to church. /.