English Translation

In the meantime, the churches will be able to build up their own system of contributions, or in other appropriate ways to worry about their revenues. We have therefore continued to pay the grants, albeit at a reduced level, both in I942 and in I 943. I cannot fail to see how it will be in l944. Churches were then called upon to make proposals about their funding. However, nothing final has yet been clarified. This is the present state of affairs in the Protectorate. On this occasion, I would also like to inform you in general terms about the attitude of the Czechs on the religious issue. As kathelic as the Czechs seem to be today - the confessional confession is the only opportunity for the Czech to have a kind of community experience in public - religion is in itself the same in itself. The Catholic Church was formerly identical with Austria for the Czechs and was therefore not affirmed internally by the Catholic Czechs. It is significant that in a large number of cities, including in Prague, the beautiful old columns of Mary were shattered during the revolution in 918, because they wanted to express the aversion to Austrian Catholicism. The Catholic Church has never played the leading role here as usual in Germany. The binding of the Czechs to the Catholic Church is therefore now more external.Naziism and the 4 are not exactly friendly to the Church, so it has become its political organization for the Czech people. Thus a measure against the Catholic Church today does not take the Czech people in its religious, but only in its political feelings. Knowing this is important. The same applies essentially also to the smaller churches of this area, especially for the Bohemian, = Moravian Church, which by its very nature is more of a political community. Greetings and Hail Hitler! Her ez.: Dr.Heckel