English Translation

45 -3 appeared after the establishment of the Protectorate. r t c intended to dissolve a German Catholic priestly order because of his national German attitude, he considered it advisable to have this carried out by a "reliable" German priest. He was appointed commissioner from the Archdiocese for this Order without informing the other German cathedral masters and German priests. Only when he was made clear that he could not proceed as a German against national German priests did he resign from his office on 21 May 1940. However, it was only by serious representations by the Prelate B r a r that the German professor S e h m i d 1 had been able to determine this step. For this reason, he immediately broke his relations with G e b er t, because he could not approve this attitude of a German against German. This behaviour is particularly significant for Germany, since in May 1939 he applied for the position of German Wehrmacht pastor and was actually employed as a hospital pastor until the beginning of 1940. In the course of the investigations into anti-state and anti-reich propaganda within the Czech and German clergy, it was found that the Domkapitular G e b er t political abominable news to clergymen and private news were taken from the English radio. From 1939 to the spring of 1940, the German Wehrmacht was able to spread the following to various people: 1. "The German Wermacht is well disposed towards religion, and only individual party circles have an opposite attitude, the four men reject pastoral care. It depends on it after the war. the influence which the Wehrmacht can exert on the interior of the state." -4-