- 46 - Contributions to the Winter Relief Association (1938-39) about 500 million RM Other associations over 100 million RM Total about 1, 800 millions RM. It is to be assumes that among the business and professional organizations the German Labor Front is represented by too low an amount (about 440 million RM), but no more exact data are available. Besides this sum of 1.8 billion RM, there is also a sum of about 1 billion RM which was raised for the purpose of promoting export trade. In 1939 the income from dues off the organizations in the old Reich could hardly have been less, but was probably somewhat higher than in the preceding year. Besides, there is the effect of the extension of the territory of the Reich by Austria and the Sudetenland. The dues of the orgizations mentioned. should therefore, Austria and the Sudetenland being included, have amounted to approximately 2 billion RM. About 0.9 billion RM was expended for the promotion of export trade. In 1940 the receipts from dues of the organizations will undoubtedly diminish in part, but on the other hand certain increases are to be counted on, as for example in the German Red Cross. Among these there is also the Joint Aid Association of Industry, necessitated by the war, which would also claim amounts worth naming. So, on the whole, the |