Office of the Historian

740.00119 (Potsdam)/7–3145

No. 943
United States Delegation Working Paper

[Babelsberg, July 28, 1945.1]

Preliminary Estimates of Capital Removals Required To Reduce German War Potential in the Reich and by Zones

(In Millions of Prewar Reichsmarks)

Total Reich Eastern Zone Including Berlin Balance of Germany
1. Manufacturing including armaments 3,500 1,400 2,100
2. Railway transport; motor vehicles, inland shipping 2,250 1,125 1,125
3. Electric power,gas 900 400 500
4. Total 6,650 2,925 3,725

Value in dollars, converted to 1938 prices plus 15 percent

a) At 2.5 RM—$1 3,060 (100%) 1,350 (44%) 1,710 (56%)
b) At 3.5 RM—$1 2,215 (100%) 975 (44%) 1,240 (51%)2

Basis of Calculation:

The calculations are based on a program to reduce German war potential in general and to eliminate it in strategic war-important industries.

  1. So dated in the “Index of Attachments to Summary of the Negotiations in the Economic Sub-Committee” (file No. 740.00119 (Potsdam)/7–3145), which describes this paper as “Statistics by Pauley Group”.↩
  2. Sic.↩