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ELI5: Why hasn't Germany suffered a loss of a manufacturing sector like other Western nations?

It seems like a large number of western nations have suffered losses in manufacturing jobs since the 1950s, the majority of which seem to have been moved to areas with lower wage costs/slave labour such as China, Taiwan, India etc. Why have the German manufacturers not moved also? How have they not suffered a drain in jobs also?
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Germany has lost a lot of manufacturing jobs. Mostly in the heavy, car and consumer goods industry. Which are all industries that are relatively easy to export to cheaper countries. What remains is a very strong specialized machine building industry that has survived on stagnating wages and increased demand from all those cheap labor countries building modern factories. There is barely any demand for unskilled or low-skilled labor anymore.