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minal, that it should neglect its duties or that it should be dominated by the criminal. At this point however there is a distinction to be made as to whether the police represented is German or a foreign police. The Higher Control Office is of the opinion that a distorted representation of the activity of foreign police, does not compromise the German public safety.
It is forbidden to popularise methods of detecting criminals, such as the finger prints : also the special system used by criminals, for example their work with gloves, the placing of the weapon near the murdered person so as to simulate suicide, and other systems of the kind. It is the object of the censorship here to avoid any warning to the criminal element to exercise caution in leaving traces of the crime, thus rendering the action of the police even more difficult.
Offensive to Religion, are considered, according to the pronouncement of the Higher Office, those films whih are either actually blasphemous or in some other way tend to degrade the rites or usages of any of the Christian Curches, or of any other religious community having corporative rights within the German State. To this category applies, for example, the obvious misrepresentation of rites, religious usages and ornaments. On the other hand a truthful and reverent reproduction of an object of religious faith and adoration must not be prohibited only on account of the fact of its inclusion in a film. All films that throw discredit on the organisation and on the members of a religious order are prohibited.
It is thus, on the whole, considered as injurious to religious sentiment to represent the admission of a fallen woman into a convent. The wearing of priestly robes is also protected, although the Higher Office refuses to regard this as a case of abuse of official dress, remarking that from the point of view of offence to religious sentiment, the dress of a priest cannot be compared to that of any other uniform. The appearence of a priest in a masked ball is viewed differently by the Higher Office according to whether the priest's robes are used as a masquerade without the due composure, but not sufficient to cause prohitition, or that under the sacerdotal attire, a criminal is hidden and the one who is thus
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