- 25 - and the Sudetenland, the net amount of cash needed for the Reich Territories, associations of Communes and Communes for the fiscal years 1939 was found by estimate to be 1,094 million RM. Hence we get a corrected total for the States and Communes of the Great German Empire (according to the territorial status before the outbreak of the present war), of 10.29 billion RM as the amount of money needed in the fiscal year 1939. In this total there is lacking the remainder of the government of Austria, directly under control of the Reich, to which 171.7 million RM was given in the way of transfers in the fiscal 1939 (see Table 2, Note 3). Besides, there are of course left out the new Reich Territories and Reich Districts of the East, which were not incorporated until late in 1939. The rough estimate for the fiscal year 1940, in which a distribution by States and Communes has not yet been possible, refers to the same territory and the same mission as the figures for the fiscal year 1939. From it there are still absent the Reich Territories of Danzig-West Prussia and Wartheland, the former Polish territories assigned to Prussia and the remainder of the administration of the States of Austria, which could certainly have demanded only scanty means in the fiscal year 1940. The net amount of |