Berlin, February 19.
At the opening of this year's motor show here, the Reichs Propaganda Minister, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, stressed the immense developments of the motor car industry in Germany within recent years.
The total number of motor cars in Germany has risen from 1,633,000 in 1982 to 2,849,000 in 1937. Whereas in 1932 there was one car for every 40, in 1937 there was one car for every 24 inhabitants. The total value of cars produced in. Germany increased from Rin. 295,000,000 in 1932 to Rin. 1,750,000,000 in 1937. During the same period the number of cars exported increased from 11,000 to 68,500. From 1932 to 1937 the number of persons employed in the German motor car industry increased from 53,000 to 120,- 000.—Trans-Ocean.
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