Revisiting the Munich Agreement

Revisiting the Munich Agreement

"England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame, and will get war."

Winston Churchill had a point when he denounced the Munich Agreement on October 3, 1938. Just days earlier, without even allowing the Czechs to represent themselves at the negotiations, Britain and France reached an accord with Nazi Germany about the partition of Czechoslovakia. The mountainous Sudetenland, home of three million ethnic Germans, would join the Third Reich in exchange for the end of German territorial conquest in Europe.

 

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