I agree completely. I think there's some forgetfulness on the subject as to how badly damaged European economies were in the postwar years and how much physical rebuilding from war damage needed to be done. Moreover, industrial success was crucial to national prestige, which is why you had a postwar auto and/or aviation industry in many countries. You also would have had a massive skills gap between the demands of a post-industrial economy and what people could do, leading to depressed economic conditions being drawn out. There would have been no Wirtshaftswunder in West Germany, for instance. The concept just doesn't work politically or economically. Can you imagine Volkswagen eschewing the building of the large Wolfsburg plant for one in Turkey? I can't; Germany needed the jobs badly and the labor shortages only developed when there was something resembling recovery, at which point what you're proposing is abandoning perfectly serviceable and relatively new physical plant at home for building a new plant overseas. One last point: you're going to have massive supply chain issues trying to do this in the auto industry, where most of the complicated components were manufactured in Europe leading to the question of what gets built domestically and what gets built overseas. In an era before robotics and computers, a component like an engine was basically artisanal in the skill required to build it. You're going to build engines in Germany and ship them to Turkey for final assembly? That makes no sense.