THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1657, sig. 109-4/1412

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RoV The Imperial Protector Prague, September 0, 1940. in Bohemia and Moravia II/7 - 1- /40. R6. It is requested to give the Gejchäftszeichen and the Gegentand bel welteren Schreiben. NU Mr. Chief Government Councillor G i e s Czerninpalais. To the attribution attached in the annex I may note the following: Jn of the meeting on September 19th l940 shared RR. Dr.Veits stated that he had already answered an identical letter from Reichenberg. According to a lecture by the Under-State= Secretary, the beant= answer was against a change in the current state church law. Dr. Veits further pointed out that from his activity in Reichenberg he was aware of an order by the Führer and Reiohg= Kanzlers, according to which all measures which could not be directly conditioned by the conduct of war, which could constitute a burden on the relationship between the state and the church, should remain until further notice. 1 940 figures are in line with the estimates of the budget in 1939. The benefits of the Protectorate to the various religious communities are laid down by Ge = 3094 legal provisions, in particular by the Kongrua Act No. 122/l926 and the implementing regulation No. 124/l928. An influence on the protectorate government with regard to the amount (due to the subsidies would therefore only be possible to alter these statutory provisions. Ligase St S.√2