Tag: Munich Agreement
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When Europe capitulated to Adolf Hitler: the Munich Agreement
This photo will forever remain etched in the history of European shame. This is when Britain and France got together to appease Hitler, basically capitulating to his demands over annexing the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. Up to 150,000 Czechs were displaced as a result and the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said about the agreement:…
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The great betrayal of the European left
On September 30th 1938, barely a year before World War 2 broke out, France and Britain signed The Treaty of Munich with Hitler allowing him to take over the German-speaking Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. The British Prime Minister, then Neville Chamberlain hailed the agreement accordingly: I say in the name of this House and of the…