The Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, central Jewish organization in Germany, has issued an appeal to Jews to make their contributions for maintenance of Jewish institutions immediately, “since this is of extraordinary importance for the upkeep of Jewish life.”
The appeal is published in the Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt, the only paper which Jews are permitted to publish in the Reich. It sets forth the contributions expected from Jews in 1940. There are two kinds of contributions–the “ordinary contribution,” based on income and property owned by a Jew, and the “extraordinary contribution,” collected from Jews emigrating from the Reich.
For 1940, Jews are asked to make an “ordinary contribution” of one-quarter of one per cent of property valued at 20,000 marks and one-half of one per cent on property from 30,000 to 50,000 marks, with a gradual increase in the successively higher brackets. The “extraordinary contribution” is set at 10 per cent on property valued at 20,000 marks, 20 per cent on property up to 100,000 marks and 40 per cent on property worth up to 250,000 marks.
Both forms of contribution are compulsory, and apparently the funds realized represent the sole basis for continuing Jewish social and religious activities in
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