The Wrong Lesson of Munich
Seventy years ago this month, Neville Chamberlain signed a document that allowed Nazi Germany to grab a large chunk of Czechoslovakia, an act of "appeasement" that is widely blamed for Hitler's subsequent campaign to conquer the rest of Europe. Would today's Europeans behave any differently?
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NEW YORK – Seventy years ago this month in Munich, the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, signed a document that allowed Germany to grab a large chunk of Czechoslovakia. The so-called “Munich Agreement” would come to be seen as an abject betrayal of what Chamberlain termed “a far away country of which we know little.” But that was not what many people thought at the time.