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correctness and capaclty of the conduct of finances by the
 
responsible Ministers of the Reich.
 
     The material given at the close in the tabulations con-
 
tains the various figures set up parallel to the statements
 
under Chapters I - VII.
 
B.
 
     Official data on the total public debt of the Reich,
 
the States and the Communes, as well as other public legal
 
corporatlve bodies, have not up to this time been assembled 
 
and submitted by any Ministry of the Reich.
 
     The official aebt figures given, the short-term and
 
long-term loans, non-interest-bearing Treasury notes, 
 
etc., show as total a debt of 66.2 billion RM. as of
 
December 31, 1939, and 76.5 billion RM. as of December 31,
 
1940. In addition to these published official government
 
debts, there are the unofficial secret government debts of 
 
all kinds, which are to be calculated at at least 16 to 18
 
billion RM as of December 31, 1940. There are to be added
 
the open book debts of the government and its instrumental-
 
ities, in particular arising out of the deliveries of war
 
supplies to the army administrations, for which the suppliers
 
have not been paid yet. These figures might be between three
 
and four billions. Thus the outstanding secret debt amounts
 
to at least nineteen or twenty billions on the whole.