History has shown that Chamberlain knew little about europe and cared even less. He was slow to react to the german threat because he didn't take it seriously. Unlike phipps, chamberlain regarded hitler as a normal, conventional statesman. Hitler had given him assurances that he had no more territorial demands after the sedan landdepart of checkers of arcue in 19 38. If we treatHitler as a pariah or mad dog, we shall him finally and irrevocably into one history. Adam charman, ladies and gentlemen, history has shown that phipps was right and henderson was wrong. Prove him right by voting for nevill amos
As the new film, Munich – The Edge of War, hits Netflix screens starring Jeremy Irons as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiating on the brink of World War Two in 1938, we revisit an archive debate discussing that pivotal moment in history. Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum is joined by a collection of celebrated historians to debate whether Chamberlain did the right thing in an impossible situation or appeased a dictator, leading to the disastrous years of conflict that followed.
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