This article examines the sense of a crisis of Christian faith in the wartime correspondence of Rudolf Ohlbaum (1912–2006), doctor of philosophical sciences and former active member of the German Catholic youth movement Staffelstein, which was renowned for its efforts to integrate Christianity and nationalism. The author attempts to consider what caused this intimate sense of a loss of faith and whether it might possibly be interpreted as a consequence of the change in political regime in the years 1938/1939, or the ideological influence of national socialism.
The article deals with the early beginnings of Nazi reorganization of scientific institutions in Prague in December 1941 on base of new founded papers, which was in 1942/1943 finished with a constitution of already well known Reinhard Heydrich's Foundation for Scientific Research (Reinhard Heydrichs Reichsstiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung in Prag).