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[Here is the preface to Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism (Mises Institute, 2007).] In the summer of 1940, with Hitler’s troops moving through France to encircle Switzerland, Ludwig von Mises sat beside his wife Margit on a bus filled with Jews fleeing Europe. To avoid capture, the bus driver took back roads through the French countryside,