STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396

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-109- +1 Religious instruction was undermined and religious teachers were expelled from schools, similar to what had already been done in the Sudeten area to the Minchen Abkomnen, In contrast to the former practice of the Czechoslovak state, the German state does not pay any of the hands neither to the teachers of religion nor to the priests, and these unfortunate men must live on the mercy of their parishioners who organize collections for their maintenance. FOCUSING THEOLOGIC FACULTRIES Finally, so that there will be no young generation of Czech priests in the future, the theological faculties in Prague and O,mitz and the seminaries in all the provincial cities which are episcopal cesidencies were closed for a period of three years, The German authorities used reprisals taken against students of other faculties to pave the way with equal eruality to the theology faculty and the priestly seminars, although the seminarians had not participated in the demonstrations,The Gestapo attacked the Prague seminary, rifles and machine guns were directed against the doors and windows of the building. During the night, the Germans entered the building, tied up and abducted the students, who loaded them up on fast cars and transported them to concentration camps. Two seminarians, Gie wanted to save himself by fleeing, were seriously injured. SAECULARISATION OF THE CHILDREN'S GUETERS The Conventions also had a heavy lot to carry. The German Government allowed