STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2141, sig. 109-8/24

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Copy of copy! Reichsssicherheitshauptamt Berlin, 2o Nov, 1940 IV D 1 b - B.Nr.1565/40 D To the secret state police, state police station Prague, oe in Pra U NE Betr.: Salvation Army in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. ad Bezg.: Without. TIE By letter dated 21 January 1964, the SD section of Prague reports in detail on the Salvation Army in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and informs that, regardless of the continued existence of the sects in the empire area, it is planned to bring about as soon as possible a dissolution and a ban on the Healing Army in Protectorate Bohemia and Mähren. In his letter of 21 January 1940, the SD section of Prague pointed out that the sects in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia had a distinctly different structure than in the Empire. He continues to draw attention to the strong international interdependencies as well as to the absolutely anti-German and chauvinist activities of the Salvation Army officials, which lead to strengthening the Czechs only in their belief in the re-emergence of a csl. republic. I am at home to request a copy of the report returned to the SD section of Prague. On the basis of the material transmitted to me by the SD-Leibshcnittes Prague, I have come to the conclusion that the work of the Salvation Army in general in the Reichs- 1/3/2ju S