[CrucifiedTruth]

(producing everything you need in your own country)

Who said everything and when?
7 trillion in debt and 500 billion annual deficit comes actually from importing everything, not producing it. Barring the non-producing service sector and the building industry, pretty much everything else is imported. So it's Nazi to want to leave in an economically solvent and independent country. Well, doesn't matter how you call it, people still want it - the better word for it is patriotic.

[CrucifiedTruth]

...want to leave live...

[CobaltBlue]

No, you are distorting what I said.

The Nazis had very good reasons for believing in autarky. Germany is land-locked, and her political opponents, Great Britain and the USA, were great maritime nations.

In order to interdict German imports during war, all it took was blockades, which were predictable.

Certainly one cannot blame the citizens of another country for loving their own country better than any other.

Nevertheless, it is true that Nazi controls on the free movement of capitol from inside Germany to outside, and vice versa, had extremely detrimental effects on the German economy in the 1930's.

[Toddsterpatriot]

7 trillion in debt and 500 billion annual deficit comes actually from importing everything, not producing it. Barring the non-producing service sector and the building industry, pretty much everything else is imported.

So, we import everything and export little pieces of green paper. Useless for anything except buying stuff. So who gets the short end of that stick? Us? We get cars and stereos and stuff from WalMart.

If they just keep the pieces of paper, we can keep that cycle going forever.