Post-war Germany relied on cheap, foreign-worker labor instead: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastarbeiter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastarbeiter Note:

Post-war Germany relied on cheap, foreign-worker labor instead: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastarbeiter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastarbeiter Note: The European guest worker model of the 1950s and 1960s doesn’t work for the United States, due to the birthright citizenship status.