Post war Germany was made possible by the Marshall Plan and American tax dollars rebuilding the nation from scratch. It was our first real effort at “nation building”. Same with Japan.
“Post war Germany was made possible by the Marshall Plan and American tax dollars ...”
... in combination with the “economic liberalism” (in the free market sense of that term) of Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. The Japanese approach was very different, and combined industrial cartels with high tariffs.