The story told by Mr. R. H. Knickerbocker, regarding the enormous sums of money deposited abroad by the various Nazi leaders, aroused quite a storm of indignation in Berlin, and no small amount of interest abroad. One of the most fruitful causes for speculation was as to where these men obtained their mone: and a statement recently appeared in Switzerland, alleged to have been compiled from official sources, suggesting that the leading Nazis are doing very well for themselves. Herr Hitler, the simple soul with modest requirements, pulls down a handsome £211000 per annum, of which £16,000 represents his salary as Reichs-president, with an entertainment allowance of £17,000, royalties on "Mein Kampf" nets him £134,000 a year, while his dividends from the "Volkischer Beobachter" amount to £16,000.
There are a few other smaller sums including salaries as a member of the Reichstag, and leader of the National-Socialist Party. Field-marshal Goering does not do quite so well, only managing to garner in the paltry sum of £112,- 000, including £10,000 as Field-marshal, entertainment expenses of £15,000—special crayfish flown from the Danube and all that sort o. thing—£67,000 dividends from industria. shares, and salaries as Prussian Prime Minister. Air Minister, President of the State Council, and chief of the Four Year Plan. While it was never alleged that Herr Hitler had deposited money abroad, Field-marshal Goering was said to be amongst those who did, and the size of the sums alleged to have been stowed away can easily be explained by the enormous incomes these men are receiving for service to their overburdened countrymen. At a conservative estimate the few members of the Nazi hierarchy must be receiving somewhere in the neighbourhood of £1,000,000, quite a high price which Germany has to pay for the doubtful privilege of being dragged into a war which is none of her liking. Indeed if all the stories which come out of Germany are correct, the only method of making plenty of money in the service of the state is to belong to the Nazi Party, for then if one is sufficiently high up the chance of getting into the big money is excellent.
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