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ESTIMATED SAVINGS FROM T-4 PROGRAM
On the assumption that the level of nutrition of the inmates of asylums will remain the same as at present even after the war, the savings in foodstuffs in the case of 70,273 disinfected persons with an average life expectancy of ten years would be as follows:
| Type of foodstuff | Kg. |
|---|---|
| Potatoes Meat and sausage products Bread Flour Butter Butterfat Margarine Bacon Quark Cheese Special Foods Pastry Products Sago, etc. Coffee substitute Jam Sugar Eggs Vegetables Pulses Salt and spice substitutes |
189,737,160 13,492,440 59,029,320 12,649,200 4,216,440 421,680 3,794,760 531,240 1,054,080 1,054,080 1,686,600 1,475,766 421,608 3,373,080 5,902,920 7,589,520 items 33,731,040 88,544,040 4,216,440 1,054,080 |
| Total | kg 400,244,520 |
| =141,775,573.80RM | |
| On the basis of an average daily cost [per patient] of RM 3.50 there will be: |
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| 1. a daily saving of RM | 245,955.50 |
| 2. a yearly saving of RM | 88,543,980.00 |
| 3. with a life expectancy of ten years | 885,439,800.00 |
| in words: eight hundred and eighty-five
million four hundred and thirty-five thousand and eight hundred Reich
marks i.e. this sum will be or has been saved up to 1 September 1941 through the disinfection of 70,273 persons carried out so far. |
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| From I. Noakes and G. Pridham, Nazism: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts, 1919-1945 (New York, 1988), Vol. 2, pp. 1042-43. | |