The amazing and true story of how Albert Einstein and his friends manipulated credit for Ludwig Lange's theory of the inertial system and drove him mad leading to his death in an insane asylum. Numerous noteworthy scientists sought to give Lange due credit for his innovations which were fundamental to the theory of relativity. Albert Einstein and Max von Laue colluded with the press to smear these men as a means to distracting the public from their honest charges that Einstein was a career plagiarist and self-promoting fraud. 
 
In 1885, the young mathematician and physicist Gustav Ludwig Lange published a remarkable new theory, which presented a novel method for mapping uniform, rectilinear motion of translation. He called these reference systems "inertial systems". Lange firmly believed in his theory and patiently waited until his death for the scientific community to recognize his unique contributions to science. Instead of acknowledging Lange's priority for this fundamental element of the special theory of relativity, and despite Lange's public plea for recognition, Albert Einstein and his friends ridiculed Ludwig Lange and took credit for his revolutionary ideas and nomenclature. 
 
Ludwig Lange died in a mental hospital suffering from severe depression brought about by Einstein's plagiarism of his work. All of Ludwig Lange's papers on the inertial system are republished within in the original German, as is his scarce article "Mein Verhältnis zu Einstein's Weltbild" (My Relationship to Einstein's Conception of the Universe) in which Lange details the facts of how he and Ernst Mach were being deliberately written out of the history of relativity theory.

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