To all Reichsleiter and Regional Directors [Gauleiter]
Enclosed please find, for your information, a copy directions for participation of the Reichsarbeitsdienstes in religious celebrations.
Signed: M. BORMANN
Rosenberg Chancellory In Nr. 226601 on 21 June 38
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Directions for the participation of the Reichsarbeitsdienstes in religious celebrations.
The Reichsarbeitsdienst is a training school in which the German youth should be educated to national unity in the spirit of National Socialism.
This problem can only be solved, if all the ideas which at one time were directed to the breaking up of national unity, are subdued in Reichsarbeitsdienst. Therefore it is forbidden to have any class, professional and religious barriers in the Reichsarbeitsdienst.
What religious beliefs a person has is not a decisive factor, but it is decisive that he first of all feels himself a German.
Every religious practice is forbidden in the Reichsarbeitsdienst because it disturbs the comrade-like harmony of all working men and women.