>b-b-b-but Germany HAD to declare war or else their economy would have collap--
"Germany is becoming too strong. We must crush her.” Winston Churchill To American General Robert E. Wood, in November 1936.
“Germany’s unforgivable crime before the second world war was her attempt to extricate her economic power from the world’s trading system and to create her own exchange mechanism which would deny world finance its opportunity to profit.” Churchill to Lord Robert Boothby, as quoted in: Sidney Rogerson, Propaganda in the Next War (Foreword to the second edition 2001), originally published in 1938.
>>2307159
>Statements made by a drunken idiot are more authorotative than actual economic indicators.
Peacetime rationing of food is not the sign of a healthy economy, anon.
>>2307166
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/sir-winston-churchill-zionist-hero-8277918.html
And yet, in volume one of his six volume series on the build up and eventual catalysts of world war two, Winston Churchill says that the combination of the debts and reparations from WWI and the restrictive treaty of Versailles hurt their economy so much they were forced into the war or a revolution.
>>2307182
A revolution did happen
>>2307292
A fascist one which necessitated the war.