Back in the early 1900s Germany...you had a serious health concern going....with too many women attempting to have kids. At some point....doctors, nurses, and educated women came together and developed a birth control pamphlet. Nothing fancy....just simple instructions.
Almost immediately....the authorities came down negative over this pamphlet. The police gave warnings, and some folks were arrested. Pamphlets kept going out.
WW I briefly halted the arrests. Two-million German men died in the war. A large segment of women became labor because of the shortage.
What you can say in the 1920s and 1930s....birth control was at work.
After WW II....a large segment of women were now part of commerce. In the early 1960s...the gov't realized that a population problem was existing. To patch up industry....Turks, Italians and various non-Germans were hired. Tax credits were developed....to encourage you to have more kids.
A typical German couple by the 1980s were having 1.5 to 1.7 kids. Where it stands today? 1.46 kids per couple.
So the authorities and commerce are worried. They need some type of 'new' German to exist. From nursing to grocery-clerk....there's a urgent need for more people to exist. The migration doorway is the accepted answer.
If you were to be critical of how they ran the program....it was probably not that smart to say 'anyone' could play a role in this migration situation. You needed to recruit, and ask questions.....leaving some people out.
Just plain halting migration, period? Probably not that smart....you'd just end up with a massive shortage of manpower.
That's the whole story....as simple as you can make it.
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