English Translation

The Reichsminister der Finanzen (1) Berlia W 8, 2 January 1945 Wilhelmplats 1/2 A 1301 5 I Rapid letter on the implementation of the budget in the Reich in the financial year 1945 Basic The development of the war situation also forces the household system to be extra-ordinary: measures. This includes first of all the measures already in my letter of 25 January 1945. A 1300 C - 228 7 - (referred to as II, 3) annulled renunciation of the suspension of a new Reichsbudget for the budget for the financial year 1945. The Reich naust 44 will also form the basis for the budget management of the Re after this also in the calculation; its estimates apply according to the best possible amount also for 1945. The extraordinary halt, Section XVII a (Specific War Revenues) must, on the other hand, be revised for the accounting year 1945. 2. Changes to the budget plan 1944 will be made to the extent specified in section C, paragraph 2, in a supplement to the general budget of the Reich. This will be achieved with the extension of the budget in 1944 and the simplification of the budgets, 40, 7 if the departments limit the appropriations to those which are really independent. 3. In the sixth year of the war, the Finanglage de 1s is the first war in the world. On the one hand, Colonel Relchsbet Reichsschulde SunaT