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from the national income, either in the way of expenditures
 
in kind or by requiring the services of officials. But it
 
permits a not unimportant portion to flow back into the
 
current of income as mere transfer of income. As early
 
as 1938 (old Reich only), an amount of fully 8 billion RM
 
was involved. By the augmentation of relief for families 
 
since the outbreak of the present war, this transfer of
 
income by the public authorities has acquired a considerably
 
greater significance. In 1939 (Austria and the Sudetenland
 
included) it amounted to a scant 12 billion RM, and in 1940 
 
(for the same territory) it will probably reach the figure 
 
of 15 billion RM. If we add these amounts to the difference
 
between the social product ln a broader sense and the public
 
expenditures, we get the portion of the national income
 
available from private enterprise, the greater part of which
 
is consumed, and the smaller portion devoted, to new invest-
 
ments in the sector of private enterprise. In the year 1938 
 
(in the old Reich), it amounted to a scant 58 billion RM.
 
In 1939 (Austria and the Budetenland included), we get
 
63 blllibn RM. If we consider that an increase of 10 to
 
15 percent is due to the extension of territory, we arrive
 
 
at the result that even in 1939 the portion of the German 
 
national income available from private enterprise must have
 
been somewhat less than in 1938. For 1940 it is calculated
 
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