STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1992, sig. 109-6/84

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97 - 5 - dangerous, anti-rich activity of chaplains transferred from the Old Kingdom to the Diaspora work and associated with the RKA, in Romania finally with the episcopal aula and the folk German school company "Banatia" in Temeschburg the actual center of a folk German KA work is still present in the entire southeast. In view of such a situation, it seems to be excluded that a popular German cleric's offspring of these countries in Prague is given a richly friendly political and worldly orientation, which is acceptable to National Socialism. Such an action - if at all - can only take place in purely German areas, such as Vienna and others. On point 3), it must be said that a concentration of the entire overseas and colonial training of Catholic clergy is completely unfounded for the entire territory of the Kingdom of Prague. By means of his handwritten note on the margins of the corresponding post of the RKA letter, the Lord Reichsprotektor also established his doubts as to whether such a training activity seems appropriate in Prague. Reasons for the choice of location are not given by the RCA in any way. It must also be stressed that any revival of the colonial idea through church propaganda activities in the Protectorate would be far from appropriate. To all these reasons it was stated that they are in no way valid locally and politically to justify an expansion of the German-Catholic priestly training in Prague. The assertion of a decisive proportion of the German clergy in the people's open-mindedness