The last time, in 1955, the vote was dominated by the desire to join the German postwar "economic miracle" and have the strong, stable German mark.

It is also interesting as a period piece, showing the contradictions and miseries lying behind Italy's postwar economic miracle.

An unsung part of Germany's postwar economic miracle, they toiled in coal mines, steel mills or on the railroad.

The conservative Liberal Democratic Party has presided alone over Japan's postwar economic miracle.

Nowhere is the pressure on Social Democracy greater than in Germany, home of "consensus capitalism" and the "social market" model that propelled the postwar miracle.

More than two decades ago, Germany closed its doors to "guest workers," the laborers from Turkey and elsewhere who fueled the postwar economic miracle.

The postwar miracle was achieved with high taxes, low wages and tax-holidays for investments.

Government policy, after all, made possible the housing boom and the growth of international trade that fueled the postwar economic miracle.

Both parties presided over postwar economic miracles, underwritten by the Marshall Plan, which were intended to ensure political and social stability.

The cost of West Germany's postwar economic miracle, it suggests, was emotionally and spiritually devastating.