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 to overcome these difficulties, Joszef Palffy found strong support                                                                                    
in the Kalot movement, which is well organized in the provinces, and in  
the fact that the most recent behaviour of the clergy has created a favorable  
public opinion. All priests remained at their posts so that the  
clergy were the only ones from the intellectual class Which remained with  
the people.                    
 
 
7. In those towns and villages which were fought over, ecclesiastical   
buildings (churches, schools, convents) suffered much, The greatest damage  
was done in Buda: The Garrison Church, the Sigismond chapel together with  
the Royal Castle, and the church of Taban have been completely destroyed;   
the Coronation Church, the parish church at Kristinavaros, The Franciscan   
parush church at 0rszag-ut, the Kapucin Parish church in Fo-utca, and   
the Church of the Erzsebet nuns have been seriously damaged. In General,   
the Var itill, the quarters of Krtstinavaros, Taban, and Lower Viziraros   
rare in ruins. In Pest the damage to ecclesiastical buildings is much   
less. At Eszergom the Basilica is also in ruins. A similar fate has   
befallen the churches of Szekesfehervar, which changed hands eleven   
times. From various villages it is reported that many times only the   
church has been damaged. This is explained by the fact that the Germans   
out of a curious preference placed munition and manks next to the   
churches. At Buda it happened that the Germans put their munition trucks   
inside churches (for example  
the Garrison Church) and used the church towers as observation posts. The  
Germans also profaned the Coronation church by bringing their horses there,  
dirtied the High Altar, while the Chapel of the Miraculous Statue of the   
Madonna was used as a W.C. They wrapped their sick in sacramental vestments,  
not only here, but also in the Sigismond Chapel. Naturally, they carried   
away all of the more valuable Church jewelry. Then the Russians came and   
finished the work of vandalism.  
 
 
                Debrecen 1945            26 March.