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00V Sicherheitsdienst RF4 Prag-Bubentich, 5. November 1940 Sachlenweg SD-Leitsabteilung Prag Fernfprecher 77444 B 1 VA 2207/13 Dio das C aa fektetärs be.tFec o.o.ek.oc in Bühmen und Mähren. Eilt sehr! Eing.: 8.NOV.1940 An den Tgb. Mr.: Personal speakers of the State Secretary at the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Hähren, bryay! 4-Obersturmbannführer G i e s , /.8/22.40. PraR Betr.: Grants of the Protectorate government to the churches in the Protectorates of Bohemia and Moravia. Vorc There.Note of 14, 10, 1940 Hees,Writing of 31.10.194o, In the follow-up to the local letter of 31 October the Js. The following is reported: According to statements by various Czech clergymen - the archbishop's administration in Budweis has spread the following rumor among the Czech clergy of the diocese there: 1xb With an indication of 1.1.1941 a separation of church and state will take place in the Protectorate. This means that all clergymen will no longer receive the state subsidy-to their salary, Of all believers a church tax of monthly RM, 8,-- will be levied per capita. This is to be done by order of the German offices, by which they want the Czech people to leave the Roman Catholic Church." Observations have shown that, for this reason, confidential meetings of the priests were held by individual Vicariates in southern Bohemia, in which they were organized by the St. S. πd2b