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The public budget in fiscal years 1939, 1939 and 1940.
 
I.  Reich Budget
 
a.  The figures for the budget years 1938 and 1939 and their financial and statistical evaluation.
 
     The Reich budget was closed in the fiscal year 1938 with total expenditures of 28.7 billion
RM and total receipts of 25.7 billion RM, so that there was a deficit of approximately 3 billion
RM.  Of the total expenditures, 17.2 billion RM went for the budget of the armed forces and 11.5
RM for the civil budget.  In this division, the war allotments and the pension burdens of the new
army are assigned to the civil budget.
     In the fiscal year 1939 there was an extraordinary budget in addition to the ordinary Reich
budget.  The expenditures under both budgets together amounted to 48.9 billion RM.  Against
them were budget revenues of 36.4 billion RM, so that for the fiscal year 1939 the deficit
amounted to 12.5 billion RM.  Of the total expenditures, 20 billion RM were assigned to the civil
budget (including war allotments and the pension burdens of the new army), and 28.9 RM to the
budget for the armed forces.  There are not given in the latter figure the expenditures outside of
the budget that were financed by armed forces bonds, which were, however, insignificant in
comparison with the total