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the figures for the Reich budget (see Table 7).
 
         According to the investigations and estimates made,
 
the net amount of cash needed by the States in the old
 
Reich (including the Saar) in the fiscal year 1938
 
amounted to 2.435 million RM, and that of the Communes
 
and  associations of Communes to 7,255 million RM. For
 
Austria and the Sudetenland no comparable figures of any
 
 kind could be secures for the fiscal year 1938. In all, we get
 
 therefore a correctea total of 9.69 billion RM needed for the
 
 States and Communes of the old Reich in the fiscal year 1938.
 
 For the fiscal year 1939, the net amount of money needed by the States
 
 of the old Reich has been assumed to be 2,450 million RM, almost unchanged,
 
 while  for the Communes and associations of Communes of the old Reich
 
 a drop of about 1/2 hillion RM was assumed (6,745 million RM). 
 
In reality, the geographic units subordinate to the Reich have already
 
 been compelled to make great savings, by the diminution in the means 
 
of  covering which was connected with the collection of the
 
war contribution levy. Since it is in practice set off  against the Reich 
 
tax transfers, this war contribution levy is deducted, as a debit entry-on
 
 the income side of the State and Commune budgets. Hence it is not contained
 
in the figures for the amount of cash needed. For Austria.