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Mario Draghi, president of the European Central BankBloomberg

From the European Central Bank’s swanky, Manhattanesque headquarters on the Frankfurt docks, you can see across the city to the site of the former IG Farben chemicals factory.

IG Farben doesn’t, of course, make chemicals there any more; today it’s the site of the University of Frankfurt.

But any ECB employees who know their European history will know that the site was once the headquarters from which the US government installed the administrators ...