Chamberlain's attempts to keep the peace through appeasement
The events surrounding appeasement, including Chamberlain's motivation and Churchill's opposition to the policy, are explored in depth. Archive footage shows Chamberlain flying to Munich to meet Hitler, and an extract from a speech by Chamberlain to the House of Commons in 1938, justifying his use of appeasement. A reconstruction shows the reaction of the Czech leader Benes to the events of the Munich Agreement. Chamberlain believed that he had won peace for Europe with a promise from Hitler of no further German expansion, but Hitler betrayed his promise and invaded Poland.
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