English Translation

24 July 1941. 4-Grup st.p.3o5/41. 1 Ministerial Councillor, Minister 33. 24. VII. Führerbau. Dear partymate Krüger! In SaChen, the Czech teachers of religion in the German elementary school in Königgrätz, first of all, tell me that religious instruction in German schools can only be given by German clergymen or German teachers who are capable and willing to do so.If such teaching skills are not available, the religious instruction must be omitted. The decisive decree of the Ministry of Education and People's Culture dated 9 December 1938. The decree states that a cross with the Crucified Christ is to be hung in a visible place in every Lehrzåmmer in public schools. Personally, I believe that this decree and with it the crosses must disappear. However, the time for this change seems to me now unfavourable, since the removal of the crosses from the schools at a maximum of 2