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a As an annex, I present in copy three confidential messages from Father Mitnacht to Mr Reiehs-protector - Department of Cultural Policy and Copy of a letter from the Federal Foreign Office Berlin dated 31.7.1941 to the Consul General Janson in Prague with the request for information. About the person of Father Mit Nacht I already on 26.5.1941 under Tgb.Nr. 82/41 g - II B 1 He expects that the recipients do not see through the Jesuit backgrounds of his information. The intended misconduct of the clear authorities and the objectives of the Catholic Church are properly demonstrated by the following correction of the individual reports. 1: CA The establishment of twelve new planned Congrua chaplains for German pastors and the dadureh additional burden of the Protectorate treasury would have been superfluous with some good will on the Czech side (General Vikar Opatrný). Despite the fact that the Czechs have freed three to four Congrua posts each in all parishes because of lack of priests, they have not been prepared to give up even one single one in favour of the Germans. This corresponds entirely to the slogan which is spread daily in the Czech clergy: "We voluntarily do not give the Germans a span - only if they take it. " At the parish of St. Niklas in Frag III there are already four systemized Congrua posts ( 1 pastor and 3 chaplains) of which today only one is occupied with Fr. Josef Zverina. If in the diocese catalogue two Redemptorist Fathers are mentioned as chaplain, sò. this is purely formal and without