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26 Überraschungen in Bonn, in: Die Neue Zeitung, 11 Nov 1948, p. 1; Tiefer Pessimismus
im Bonner Rat, in: Ibid., 13 Nov 1948, p. 1.
27 Zentralverband der Fliegegeschädigten, Wir warnen, Stuttgart, 1 April 1948, p. 2, in:
BA, Z32, no. 43.
28 E.g. request by Curt Albrecht sent to the EC, 14 June 1948, in: DBt PA,
2/510. Eventually, there were more than 250 proposals from officials and
individuals for the currency reform alone.
29 Memorandum entitled Betrachtungen zur kommenden Währungs-Reform by Hellmut
Sommer addressing the President of the EC, Erich Köhler, all prime ministers
and presidents of parliaments in the western Länder, the chairmen of the
chambers of industry and commerce, the Bankenrat and the Bank Deutscher
Länder (founded on 1 March 1948), the principals of the universities, the party
chairmen, the unions, selected newspapers and the military governors, 25 May
1948, in: DBt PA, 2/510.
30 Internal document of AG CDU/CSU, Frankfurt am Main, 18 June 1948, p. 2
in: ACDP, NL Paul Binder, I-105-022. See also the response by Erich Köhler,
4 June 1948, in: DBt PA, 2/510.
31 Letter to Paul Binder, Frankfurt am Main, 24 June 1948, in: Ibid..
32 Woller, H., Gesellschaft und Politik in der amerikanischen Besatzungszone – Die Region
Ansbach und Fürth, in: Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte, edited by the
IfZ, vol. 25, Munich, 1986, p. 294.
33 Newspaper article, in: Fränkische Landeszeitung, 19 June 1948.
34 Military Government Gazette 25, Law no. 61, pp. 848 ff. Regarding the terms and
conditions of the German Currency Reform of 1948, see Tribe, K., The 1948
Currency Reform – Structure and Purpose, Keele University, Department of
Economics, Working Paper Series no. 98/10, Staffordshire, 1998.
35 Davidson, E., The Death and Life of Germany. An Account of the American
Occupation, Columbia, 1999, p. 224; also in: MacDonogh, G., l.c., p. 521.
36 Böttcher, K. W., Die Übergangskrise der D-Mark, in: FH, Jan 1949, p. 73.
37 Erhard, L., Prosperity through Competition, London, 1958, p. 13 (original title
Wohlstand für alle translated by Jacques Rueff and André Piettre).
38 Military Government Gazette 25, Law no. 63, p. 863.
39 Colm, G.; Dodge, J. M.; Goldsmith, R. W., A Plan for the Liquidation of War
Finance and the Financial Rehabilitation of Germany, in: Zeitschrift für die gesamte
Staatswissenschaft 111, Tübingen, 1955, pp. 204-243.
40 Roeper, H., Die D-Mark. Vom Besatzungskind zum Weltstar, Frankfurt am Main,
1978, pp. 24 f.
41 Mendershausen, H.; Matchett, G., Analysis of Size Distribution of Cash and Bank
Deposits, reprinted in: Möller, H. (ed.), l.c., pp. 457 ff.; Tribe, K., l.c., 1998, p. 4.
42 Neumann, E. P.; Noelle, E., l.c., 1954, pp. 147, 152.
43 Ibid., p. 151.
44 Report no. 133 (10 Aug 1948), in: Merritt, A. J.; Merritt, R. L. (eds.), l.c., pp.
251 f. See also Kommentare, in: Nordsee Zeitung, 21 June 1948.
45 Report no. 139 (22 Sep 1948), in: Ibid., p. 258 f.
46 Neumann, E. P.; Noelle, E., l.c., 1954, p. 148.