The Gestapo’s foreign budget dwarfed the regular military intelligence budget

Evidence

In 1935, the Gestapo agents abroad received 20 million marks while the regular espionage service of the Reichswehr had to get along with a budget of 8 million. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2783

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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