STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1648, sig. 109-4/1403

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= 19 - 22 The fact that Dr. Hoeben, according to the Sekrotärs Diepenbrock, has received support for his work as the Laiter of the Nachrichtonbüro over the course of time, probably proves how closely the KAvG. This news office of Dr. Hocben has for years been working on anti-German incitement to the greatest extent. So bestard by thiscm office closest cooperation between the English, Polish, French, Hungarian, American, Spanish, Romanian consulate and the nunciature. As well as the single leading members of the KAvG, and the Dutch bishops, dicse Konsu- late were constantly receiving "confidential reports" on the persecution of children, torture in prisons and other atrocities in Germany. Purner received the aforementioned Stellon continuously reports on the military situation in Duutschland. Thus, among other reports, it was found that the military situation in the West, the submarine construction, the munitions production of suw. was reported in detail. 5. The KaVG's forward-looking operations. a) KaVG. as a political instrument of power. As the experiences in the field of the Katnolische Aktion in the Reichsgobiet have shown, but before allcm the sighting of the material which took place in the year lg38 in the dissolution of the Ruichs-zentrale of the K' in Düsseldorf, the Katholische Aktiv, meaning with the KaVG. in Holland, dic represents the largest and most important political news and action organization of the Catholic Church.