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xxiv THE MAKING OF THE GERMAN POST-WAR ECONOMY

For supportive advice on specific aspects of this study, I give my thanks to
Günter Grosche (Director EFC/EPC DG Economics and Finance
European Commission), Ernst Bollinger and Louis Bosshart (Université de
Fribourg), Robert Jeremy A. I. Catto and Ian Forrest (Oriel College), Rolf
Herget (Deutsche Bundesbank), and Niall Ferguson (Harvard University).

In addition to academic support, financial assistance that proved decisive
in facilitating research in Germany was provided by the University of
Oxford (Scatcherd European Scholarship), Peter de H. Collett and Ernest
Nicholson from Oriel College, and the Sir Richard Stapley Educational
Trust. At this point, I should like to express my greatest thankfulness to
Wolfgang Geibel (g) of the Deutscher-Albertus-Magnus-Verein (DAMV).

For editing and constuctive criticism, I thank Joanna Godfrey. More
thanks are due to Jane Caplan (European Studies Centre, St Antony’s
College), Penelope and Francis Warner (St Peter’s College) as well as to
Joanna Dennison (Oxford Tutorial College), for whom I taught in all my
years in Oxford; and, not to be overlooked, to my fellow students and
friends Jens-Wilhelm Wessels (g), Matthias Uhl, Julia DeClerck-Sachsse,
Theresa d’Aligny, Thomas Schmelzer, Almuth Wietholtz, Florian Sturm,
Christoffer Koch, Jochen W. Klingelhöfer, Kathrin M. Heydebreck,
Markus Kitzmüller, Josef C. Karl, Christian Lösel, and Vanya Rangelova,
who were constant reminders of how productive and valuable it can be to
work close to someone who shares the same academic idiosyncrasies and
obsessions. It would prolong this acknowledgment intolerably if I were to
name all those friends who have in one way or another, by drawing my
attention to sources which I had overlooked or by discussing the
problems of the period, provided me with fresh material and stimulus. I
hope they forgive me for acknowledging their generous help in this global
and anonymous expression of thanks, which is nonetheless sincere.

I am also most grateful to Javier Cuadriello, Timothy J. Durkin, Nils Baus,
Parnesh Sharma, Vanessa Grand and Thomas Anderl, who proved to be a
source of constant encouragement, sound advice, and genuine friendship.

Finally, emotional support is as important as intellectual stimulus. My
father Ludwig and my brothers Thomas and Stefan provided both. To
them I dedicate this book with love and thanks for keeping faith in me.

Academic protocol and tradition require that I absolve all from culpability
for any errors or omissions which remain; they deserve praise without
responsibility.