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Streicher would have taken more drastic measures had he known what Ludwig Erhard was up to at the time: he turned out a lengthy analysis of steps to rebuild the German economy, based on the frank premise of Germany's total defeat. Although Erhard sent copies to friends, the Nazis never got wise. One copy went to Dr. Karl Goerdeler, once mayor of Leipzig and then deeply involved in the plot on Hitler's life and in planning a postwar German government. After Goerdeler was arrested, he smuggled word about Erhard from his prison cell to friends outside...
...father having sold the family shop, young Erhard decided to go back to school after the war; economics fascinated him. From Nurnberg's Academy for Economics and Sociology, he went on to do graduate work at Frankfurt University, where he became a protege of famed economist Franz Oppenheimer, a leading exponent of free enterprise. A dedicated mountaineer, Oppenheimer once took Erhard on a climb in the Alps. There, atop Mount Piz Corvatsch (11,339 ft.), the professor asked his student one final question about economics and forthwith an nounced that young Erhard had passed his Ph.D. examination. Chuckled Oppenheimer...
Herr Doctor Erhard married Luise Letter, a widowed Frankfurt University classmate who had been a childhood friend, moved back to Niirnberg to join a market research institute. Soon he was deputy director in charge...
...staff of 80. But the war had begun, and Niirnberg's Gauleiter, the notorious Julius Streicher, insisted that Erhard join a Nazi labor organization; Erhard refused, and was fired...
Message from Prison. Erhard promptly formed his own research group, soon had dozens of sponsors for new projects. But he was constantly under the shadow of Hitler's men. Streicher kept muttering, "That's a nest that we'll have to clean out one of these days...