English Translation

49%n3 copy. The Reichsminister Berlin, March 1939. for the ecclesiastical affairs (8/ II 1325/39, I. Personal letter of the Lord Minister: E i l t ! Immediately ! To 3EEES Still today! the Lord Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, Reich Minister of Néurath, z.Zt. Berlin-Dahlem, Rheinbabenallee 23 Dear party comrade of Neurath ! H.Bühn. H.Roth As I take from Article 5 of the decree of the Führer of March 1, 1939 on the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Imperial Protector in Prague will have to watch, among other things, that the measures of the autonomous Czech administration do not contradict the policing of the Reich government. In this respect, the observation of Czech measures in the field of church policy will be of particular importance, because, in addition to school and association, the churches are likely to be a major area for Czech cultural autonomy. I am particularly interested in the fact that, in your authority, you are entrusted with the tasks of church policy, for which, to my knowledge, various unoccupied positions are already of interest in Prague, with a staff member who knows exactly the Church policy principles of the Reich, the church policy conditions in the former Czech Republic as well as the Czech state church law, and who masteres the Czech language. This _Sach-