English Translation

21 -2 this attitude was strengthened by the fact that most confessional schools are well equipped and properly managed. Many Czechs tried to prevent the dissolution of individual schools at the Landesschulrat in Brno by means of pre-languages, etc. All possible connections to key personalities were also used to preserve the schools. As a justification for these events, it was usually stated that the school supervision by nuns or priests could not provide a reason for closure. In various parts of Bohemia it was declared on the Czech side that the dissolution of the confessional schools would be in accordance with the general rule of the Czech school system at all. Catholic circles, particularly disappointed, said that National Socialism and the Germans had done better to try to win over the Catholic part of the people, as Catholics were the most reliable part of each state. The closure of the confessional schools would only contribute to the fact that Catholics are increasingly moving away from public life and that the Catholic clergy, in particular, will no longer take any part in contemporary events. In Bohemia, the fear was expressed that the next step would be to eliminate religious education at schools. On the other hand, the dissolution of the private confessional schools in large parts of Bohemia, for example in Groß-Prague, did not show any significant effects; on the part of Catholics, it was pointed out in part that the denominational schools showed a perfect and successful continuity in their educational work, while the secular school system is currently very much experimenting around, so that it could never reach the level of education of the confessional school. That the Catholic Church is trying at this very moment this opinion of -3-