Appeasement

Witness History

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In September 1938 Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back and forth to Germany to negotiate with Adolf Hitler. He hoped to guarantee "peace for our time". He agreed that Germany could take over the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia, as part of a policy known as appeasement.

Photo: The Prime Minister meets the press on his return from his first trip to Germany on September 16th 1938. Copyright: BBC.

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1:05.4	You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.
1:10.6	And today we're going back to 1938, when the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
1:16.5	returned from negotiations with Adolf Hitler promising peace for our time. Chamberlain had hoped he could pacify the German Nazi
1:24.6	leader by agreeing to some of his demands, a policy known as appeasement.
1:29.8	In 2013 Lucy Burns put together this report, made up of written and audio archive from the time.
1:38.0	It's September 1938, and conflict is looming in Central Europe.
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