A. At Vilseck, I only discharged my general duties as a priest.
Q. But your activities at school were talked about and other activities which were not compatible with State directives at that time?
A. Well, I have to object to that. That was only the opinion of Stubenvoll. Only in his opinion were those activities against the State. I never violated any State directives in that matter. I only stuck to my church directives.
Q. However, your youth organization and your school activity, what did they object to in those matters?
A. Well, for instance, as far as the pupils of the vocational school were concerned, I gathered them for education after the lessons. The Ortsgruppenleiter Stubenvoll didn’t like that, and then he made quite bad and mean difficulties for me. He threatened that I would be charged. Furthermore, I gathered the adult youth every 3 or 4 weeks in order to have discussions and a little lecture. There again, Stubenvoll sent informers, in spite of the fact that he had no right whatsoever to intervene in church matters.
Q. You speak of intervening in church matters. Can you confirm that as a result of the centuries-old tension between church and state in Germany, there were penalties for the misuse of the priest’s profession which were as old and which had been issued centuries ago?
A. I know only the “Pulpit Article,” and that had existed for quite some time.[544] Otherwise, I don’t know anything.
Q. Well do you know for instance, the Protizio of common law? You don’t know that?
A. No.
Q. The Protizio.