English Translation

13 - 6 - The Order of the Salvatorians distributes a booklet of 92 O00 pieces among the soldiers, in which the death guals of a soldier on the battlefield are painted in their brightest colours: "There lay a German soldier on a bloody battlefield, the breast shattered by a cruel shell. One saw it at first sight: this life only counted after minutes. The wounded person himself seemed to feel it. "Kame- rad," he whispered, "you are a theologian, listen to my epithelium" "I can't do that, I'm not ordained a priest." "You get me deu field clergymen!" "It's not enough anymore, he's coming too late." - Then the dying man cried in despair: "Then I am lost; 20 years no longer went to church, did nothing for my soul; now I am serving there with less threads and a guilty soul". Min.Dir. Gutterer explained to the church representative such attitude of the churches to war, which Frd did not strengthen, but wretched, could be nodded by the state. He had brought examples here from a wealth of Mater. But these examples testified to the attitude of German tenacity that the churches of the enemy powers in no way a could assure the churches that now they would lose nothing more if they still wanted to join the new weav. After the victory it was too late for declarations of loyalty. The state did not need to take any consideration, although it was always willing not to deny the pastoral activity of the churches. The state would also find ways and means (e.g. through the seizure of the printing works, through the confirmation of the confessional book sales stands) to effectively oppose this state-constituting attitude of the church. He said that the Church could recognize from these figures what the hour had struck. According to his remarks, Colonel Ziegler, acting on behalf of the Chief of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, Generalfeldmarschall Heitel, read a statement in which it was said that Wehrmascht had its own Wehrmachs-Seelersorge and did not tolerate it. In order to underline this point of view, Colonel Ziegler repeated the decree issued by the minister of the kzichskirchen in agreement with the High Command of the Wehrmacht to the troupe in support of the ending of confessional writings.