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

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100 - 8 - in Prague-Dewitz. In this seminary were accommodated both the ravens of the German and Czech theological faculty. Archbishop Kordač, in his capacity as builder of this seminaro, made this building available to Catholic theologians of both nationalities for eternal times. In violation of these intentions of the founder, Cardinal Kašpar refused the house to the remaining German theologians in Prague after the separation of the Sudetengau in his Czech-Chauvinist attitude. The German theologians had to help themselves for a time, in emergency dwellings together, and a German theology study in Prague was in the following time almost completely before the collapse, Nur der Initiative des Prager Prof. Kindermann was finally responsible for the fact that an improvement occurred here and the current accommodation for German theology students in Prague-Veitsberg was found as an emergency solution. It corresponds to the justified German demand for reparation of wrongs, that the old condition of earlier years is restored today and the German theologues can again take their place in the seminary in Prague-Dewitz next to the Czech. On the German side, it was necessary to push for such a solution, also locally accurate, in line with the previous state and not to agree to the premises elsewhere by renouncing this clear legal claim, the RKA could perhaps explain that the occupation of the former Benedictine monastery at St-Gabri also represented a German reparation. This argument, however, would not be valid historically, was not put forward by the RKA in its previous submissions and also does not correspond to the current plans of the RCA to purchase the building. Even if the Benedictine sisters of the former monastery of St.Gabriel to a large extent German