hundreds of nuns were still interned at Bojanowo. It is established that for some time the religious were deprived even of spiritual help.

"Likewise in the matter of education and religious instruction of youth no attention was paid in the 'Warthegau' to the rights of the Catholic Church.

"All the Catholic schools were suppressed."

"The use of the Polish language in sacred functions, and even in the Sacrament of Penance, was forbidden. Moreover — and this is a matter worthy of special mention and is at variance with the natural law and with the dispositions accepted by the legal systems of all nations — for the celebration of marriage between Poles the minimum age limit was fixed at 28 years for men and 25 years for women.

"Catholic Action was so badly hit as to be completely destroyed. The National Institute, which was at the head of the whole Catholic Action movement in Poland, was suppressed; as a result all the associations belonging to it, which were flourishing, as well as all Catholic cultural, charity, and social service institutions, were abolished.

"In the whole of the 'Warthegau' there is no longer any Catholic press and not even a Catholic bookshop.

"Grave measures were repeatedly taken with regard to ecclesiastical property.

"Many of the churches closed to public worship were turned over to profane uses. From such an insult not even the Cathedrals of Gniezno, Poznan, Wloclawek, and Lodz were spared. Episcopal residences were confiscated, the real estate belonging to the seminaries, convents, diocesan museums, libraries, and church funds were confiscated or sequestered."

"Even before ecclesiastical property was affected, the allowances to the clergy had been abolished."

"The administrative regulations published by the lieutenant's office for the application of the ordinance of September 13th,