Their decisive advantage over other intellectual trends in the immediate postwar period lay in the ordoliberal nucleus, namely, the Freiburger Schule, which had been able to continue their work during the National Socialist era. Left-wing oppositional economists either had emigrated or been eliminated. … It was the Cold War constellation, however, that cleared the way for the prevailing one-sided representation of ordoliberal opposition to Nazi rulers: nearly everyone was welcome in the alliance against the widely perceived communist threat.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 544