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Frank McDonough is a leading proponent of that view of appeasement, which was described his book Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War [82] as a "post revisionist" study. [83] Appeasement was a crisis management strategy seeking a peaceful settlement of Hitler's grievances.
The talks between Chamberlain and Hitler in September 1938 were made difficult by their innate differing concepts of what Europe should look like, with Hitler aiming to use the Sudeten issue as a pretext for war and Chamberlain genuinely striving for a peaceful solution. [60] The Munich Conference: Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini
Hitler accepted and Chamberlain flew to Germany on the morning of 15 September; this was the first time, excepting a short jaunt at an industrial fair, that Chamberlain had ever flown. Chamberlain flew to Munich and then travelled by rail to Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden , (see Berchtesgaden meeting ).
President Trump's approach to ending the war in Ukraine echoes the appeasement of Hitler's aggression in 1938, and his proposed solution of a neutral Ukraine accepting Russian dominion over its ...
Chamberlain met Hitler again from 22 to 24 September in Bad Godesberg. Hitler increased his demands, but Chamberlain objected. Hitler stated that Germany would occupy the Sudetenland on 1 October, but that had been planned as early as May, when Fall Grün was drafted. The French and the Czechoslovaks rejected Hitler's demands at Bad Godesberg.
Neville Chamberlain was the serving prime minister. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to the Nazi regime. He said it brought "peace in our time" and was widely applauded. He also stepped up Britain's ...
Chamberlain speaking to a crowd on his arrival at Heston Airport from Munich, where he had met Hitler, Mussolini, and Deladier to settle the question of the Czecho-Slovak dispute. ... Appeasement ...
In May of 1940, the British public had had enough of Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Adolf Hitler and replaced him as prime minister with Winston Churchill, a tough-minded visionary who had ...