>>17968634
>More sensible people have pointed out that Great Britain was in no position to contend with Germany, other than through a naval blockade at that point.
Considering that Germany had yet to negotiate the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with the USSR, that would have been utterly devastating to Germany's economy, especially if they were trapped in a protracted ground war with the Czechs.
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>>17968903
Apart from the fact that signing away another country's sovereignty (after they appealed to YOU for help) is appalling in its own right, Munich only served to to both embolden Hitler into believing that he could continue gobbling up territory and that France and Britain wouldn't have the balls to oppose him, and provided him unfettered access to the Czech military-industrial complex, which gave him with the means to actually do it.
So no, Chamberlain still isn't getting any sympathy from me, no matter how much 4-D chess he thought he was playing.
>But the truth is that in 1938 neither Hitler nor his Germany appeared extraordinarily wicked, a lot of their arguments made sense, and their ambitions appeared to be limited. Their moral actions did not seems particularly malicious.
By the time of the Munich Crisis, Hitler had already
>murdered hundreds of political opponents in the Night of the Long Knives (including some of the prominent politicians of Weimar Republic, one of whom had previously been head of state) and imprisoned thousands more
>thrown the Treaty of Versailles into the shredder
>was waging a very bloody proxy war in Spain
>annexed Austria after overthrowing its government in a state-sponsored coup
To say no one could see where this man was going is absurd, they just didn't want to.
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