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 * colspan=2 |I. CONSTANTLY
 * |II. FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD
 * |III. OCCASIONALLY
 * | IV. ALTOGETHER (Total)
 * 1st degree
 * | in 17 banks
 * |in 5 banks
 * |in 8 banks
 * in 30 banks
 * &#8203;
 * 2nd degree
 * |of which 9 participate in 34 others
 * |of which 5 participate in 14 others
 * of which 14 participate in 48 others
 * &#8203;
 * 3rd degree
 * |of which 4 participate in 7 others
 * |of which 2 participate in 2 others
 * of which 6 participate in 9 others
 * }
 * 2nd degree
 * |of which 9 participate in 34 others
 * |of which 5 participate in 14 others
 * of which 14 participate in 48 others
 * &#8203;
 * 3rd degree
 * |of which 4 participate in 7 others
 * |of which 2 participate in 2 others
 * of which 6 participate in 9 others
 * }
 * 3rd degree
 * |of which 4 participate in 7 others
 * |of which 2 participate in 2 others
 * of which 6 participate in 9 others
 * }
 * 3rd degree
 * |of which 4 participate in 7 others
 * |of which 2 participate in 2 others
 * of which 6 participate in 9 others
 * }
 * |of which 2 participate in 2 others
 * of which 6 participate in 9 others
 * }
 * }

Included in the eight banks dependent in the first degree, there are three foreign banks: one Austrian and two Russian. Altogether, the Deutsche Bank group comprises, directly and indirectly, partially and totally, no less than 87 banks; and the sum total of capital—its own and others'—which it handles varies between two and three milliard marks.

It is obvious that a bank at the head of such a group, and entering into relation with a half-dozen other groups, which yield little to it in magnitude, for big and profitable enterprises such as State borrowings, is no longer a mere intermediary for payment of transactions, but has reached the stage of being an alliance of a small number of monopolisers.

The following data, which we borrow in an abridged form from Riesser, will show how rapidly banking concentration was effected in Ger-