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mofualnBilme86 The Commander of the Security Police and SD Prague, August 12, 1940. Cab. No. B. D. S. VII Office of the S'an's Secretary of State Please indicate the business sign and date at the time of the reply. Reid p oektoc in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing.: 16.AUG.1940 Tgb. Nr.:... 4287 To the Minister of State at the Reichsprotektor in Böhmen and Moravia, 4-Group Leader K.H.F r a n k , Prague. Betr.: Convikt der deutschen Theologien in Prag - Reichsverband für das katholischen Deutschtum im Ausland. Preliminary note, note of 8.7.194. On the above question the following statement is made: The two letters of the Reichsverband für das katholischen deutschtum im Abroad e.V. is based on the memoran- dum of the professorship of the theological faculty of Prague, in which the public activity of the Church is constantly spoken of. In the letter to the Lord Reichsprotektor of 4.7.l94o it is pointed out in the second paragraph that the theologians for the tasks of their later deployment are formed close to the people and in accordance with the church regulations. For the outsider there is in this sentence the danger of first seeing the Volkische activity of the Church. However, the work of the Catholic Church's people is always based on a certain tactic. The Church sees first and foremost in the Völkischer wrestling of larger or smaller groups of Germans a field of activity for their own goals. It may be that the one St.Sit2 zú