CAMPAIGN AGAINST RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006500490007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 22, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Eas t Germany
Campain lit Iai n~-,t
Religiou, L
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 16, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission cr revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohib
by law. 25X1
REPORTI
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
The explanation is given that nowadays children no longer need religious
instruction,
April 1955
In i?..n ;elsbFr ;, a village of about one thousand inhabitants near Furstenwalde,
parents of schoolchildren who refuse to subject their children to the Youth
Dedication (Jul;endweihe) planned for Easter 1955 are summoned to the principal's
office. here police officials put pressure on them to commit themselves not
to allow their children to go to the confirmation class or to be confirmed.
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