Table 6
Reich expenditures and their coverage in the fiscal years 1938 and
1939 in millions of RM. prepared according to the principles of
financial statistics *l)
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Fiscal Year
1938 1939
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A. Expenditures of the armed forces 17,247.2 28,920.5
B. Expenditures of the civil administrative
authorities 2) 13,199.0 15,626.3
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Expenditures of the administrative authori-
ties all together (A and B) 30,446.2 44,546.8
Covered by special payments of the States
and Communes 103.9 121.9
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Net amount of money needed by the Reich 30,342.3 44,424.9
Covered by special means of coverage:
1. Administrative income 3) 1,111.3 1,842.7
2. Borrowing 7,534.3 6,269.9
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Total special means of covering (1+2)8,645.6 8,112.6
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Actual cash needed by the Reich 21,696.7 36,312.3
Covered by general means of covering:
a) Reich's share of tax and customs
revenue (less transfers on the
debit side) 4) 14,688.8 20,489.4
b) Property secured from the Jews 498.5 533.1
c) Issuance of NF tax coupons ------ 3,972.7
d) War contribution of the States, as
well as portions of salaries saved
and transferred to the Reich ------ 3,972.7
e) Earned revenue and other general
meaned of coverage (excess of receipts
over expenditures) 5) 778.0 519.3
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Total general means of coverage (a-e)
15,965.2 26,484.5
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Excess of expenditures over income 5,731.5 9,827.8
Amount of the delivery bonds (Lieferschatz-
anweisungen) issued in the fiscal year 1938
but not due until 1939 -2,700.0 +2,700.0
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Deficit 3,031.5 12,527.8
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*Deviations in the amounts due to rounding off of the figures.
1) See Table 1.
2) See Table 3.
3) See Table 5.
4) See Table 2.
5) See Table 4.