JFK+50: Volume 7, No. 2448
MUNICH AGREEMENT SIGNED 79 YEARS AGO
Munich, Germany (JFK+50) Seventy-nine years ago, September 30, 1938, an agreement was signed here in Munich which permitted German occupation of the Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia inhabited by German-speaking people.
The agreement, which had been negotiated on the previous day, was signed at 1:30 a.m. by Adolf Hitler of Germany, Edouard Daladier of France, Benito Mussolini of Italy and Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain.
Upon his return to London, Prime Minister Chamberlain held up the signed agreement for all to see and said...
"I believe it is peace in our time."
Those words rang hollow, however, when Hitler annexed the remainder of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Munich became synonymous with appeasement and the term was used during the Cold War by those who argued appeasement of the Soviet Union would have a similar result.
SOURCE
"Munich Agreement", Encyclopedia Britannica, www.britannica.com/
Munich Conference
September 29-30, 1938
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R69173
CC-BY-SA 3.0
MUNICH AGREEMENT SIGNED 79 YEARS AGO
Munich, Germany (JFK+50) Seventy-nine years ago, September 30, 1938, an agreement was signed here in Munich which permitted German occupation of the Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia inhabited by German-speaking people.
The agreement, which had been negotiated on the previous day, was signed at 1:30 a.m. by Adolf Hitler of Germany, Edouard Daladier of France, Benito Mussolini of Italy and Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain.
Upon his return to London, Prime Minister Chamberlain held up the signed agreement for all to see and said...
"I believe it is peace in our time."
Those words rang hollow, however, when Hitler annexed the remainder of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Munich became synonymous with appeasement and the term was used during the Cold War by those who argued appeasement of the Soviet Union would have a similar result.
SOURCE
"Munich Agreement", Encyclopedia Britannica, www.britannica.com/
Munich Conference
September 29-30, 1938
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R69173
CC-BY-SA 3.0
