Berlin, January 24, 1941. We.
 
Memorandum I.
 
War Finances
 
A.
 
Preliminary remarks:
 
     On the basis of the official tables and statements,
 
a financial and statistical conspectus of the German
 
financial situation is submitted.
 
     The budget figures for the fiscal years 1933-1937
 
and analyses thereof were set aside; only the most
 
important figures from this period were taken.
 
     The following report gives:
 
     I. For the Reich:
 
              1. Results of calculations of the budgets for 1938 and 1939;
              2. Analysis of the financial requirements for 1940 and covering therefor on the basis of
the provisional figures.
 
          II. For States and Communes (Gemelnden) the total financial needs for 1938, 1939 and
1940.
 
          III. The financial needs for the public administration for 1938-1940.
 
          IV. The budget for the Reich Office for Unemployment Insurance etc.
 
     V. The financial needs for industrial insurance.
 
          VI. The financial needs of the auxiliary fiscal corporations.
     
     Following this (Chapter VII), the financial figures as
 
a whole are compared with the national or total social out-
 
put and the official statements of the Reich Government on
 
these points are given. These statements serve as proof for the