English Translation

31 of the Czech people. In the families from which a member fled to the enemy country shortly after the earthquakes in the year l939, there is fear and dismay. These fear among the arrested or shot relatives could find themselves and now expect sharpest measures against the family members remaining in the Protectorate. An even stronger impression was made by the fact that the perpetrators were seized in a church, or that the offenders were hiding in a Church. It is mostly still unknown that it was a church of the Greek Orthodox Church, so that the atmospheric effects are generally directed against the clergy and the church. Among the German population there is some satisfaction (Olmütz). But even voices from the Czech population are familiar with the great bitterness with which one now starts to turn away from the Church (Budweis). Thus, in Pilgram's Czech workers, in unchosen terms, left themselves over the priests and compared them with the Archbishop of Canterbury (Tabor). In connection with this, a second Liditz is called for in both German and Czech circles against the "parsons" of draconian measures (Brünn). The greatest dismay has been the fact that the perpetrators have been caught in a church, with the Catholic clergy itself rd The episcopal deputy Kratochvil in Brno was completely disturbed and stammered in a meeting with other clergymen only disparaging words such as: "Gloriousness, tragedy, terrible blow for the Church". In the parish of St. Thomas found numerous Catholic priests who discussed the case excitedly (Browns). Also in peasant circles (OLB Budweis) the discovery - 5 -