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Security Service RF4 Prague-Bubentfch, 19.7.1941 SD section Prague Sachfenveg Ferniprecher 77444 B_4 SA. 59 Office of the Saa fektati:s BTNOTCSL at the Reich p glek c. in Bohemia and Moravia. Leta0 denesne dled Eing.: 21 JULY 1941 To the Personal Speakers Tgb. Nr. of the Secretary of State at the Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia lastsv s 4-Obersturmbannführer G i Net Prag Betr.: Attachment of crosses by a Czech religious teacher in the German elementary school in Königgrätz. Introduction: There. Note St.S. IV 0 - 33a of 1 July 1941. Appendices: - 3 - The left-over processes are returned via the German elementary school in Königgrätz. The delay in the return is based on the fact that the previous expert was ordered by the local department in the context of the processing of church questions to the secret state police and therefore could not process the processes in a final manner. On the question raised, the following statement is made: The decree that in every classroom in public schools a cross with the crucified Christ is to be hung in a visible place still stems from the time before the establishment of the protectorate (of 9 December 1938). It contradicts the National Socialist principle that the confessional differences in public life and in the state institutions should disappear. Moreover, this decree is capable of causing maladministration in the German population share of the Protectorate, as shown in the memo of Group I 1 of 30 December 1940 in the left-over transactions. Also available in the SD section of Prague b.w. St. S+40-516/4