English Translation

5 32 of the perpetrators in a church on the occasion of sharp criticism against the clergy. It became known how: "This is the Church's charity; the pastors should take care of things other than politics." Ironically it was noted: "The assassins must have confessed." In contrast to these voices, they tried to relieve the Church, saying that the Church could not be held responsible for the actions of individual priests, because there were good and bad priests. In general, however, the amazement was expressed that clergymen supported this act and sacrificed innocent blood. Therefore, one should not be surprised if the church visit is now slowed down (OLB Pudweis), also one would have full understanding of if sharp measures were taken against the clergy. In Kolin there were conjectures that the Sramek resident in London must have been in contact with the Church servant. It would have been excluded that he would not have known about it. It was also said that the parachute agents had a letter from Sramec from Lon-don with them, which best proves that the priests of the church had been informed. The German population received the news of the execution of the perpetrators with joyous satisfaction (e.g.OLB Brno,Iglau,Kladno,Olmütz,Zlin). However, it also caused a certain disappointment in various places, since it is feared that the planned atonement measures against the Czechs would now be omitted (OLB Klattau, Moravian-Ostrava). On the other hand, Pilsener Germans want to know that Secretary of State K.H.Frank has already stated that "with the destruction of the perpetrators the files of the assassination are not yet closed". The fact that the perpetrators were excavated in a church caused German circles in Klattau and Schüttenhofen to assume that it was a Catholic church, to say that no German should now be a member of the Catholic church. The announcement of the harmlessness of the perpetrators was almost generally referred to as too little detailed (OLB Brno, Mähr.-Dstrau et al.), mainly missing name and location information - on the other hand regret 6