I think that it helps to remind ourselves of the context of the time. Winston Churchill's official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert in Winston S. read more
Winston Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert in Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth, 1922-1939 (Volume V), says: ‘Churchill had also become deeply concerned by the rise of National Socialism in Germany, and by reports of Nazi violence which had begun to appear in the Press. read more
In September 1938, the leaders of Germany, Italy, France and England met together and signed an agreement ceding the Sudetenland to Germany without Czechoslovakia's consent. Czechoslovakia, as an ally of France and England, felt it had been betrayed. Germany marched into the Sudetenland the next day. read more
Hitler wanted all German-speaking nations in Europe to be a part of Germany. To this end, he had designs on re-uniting Germany with his native homeland, Austria. Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, however, Germany and Austria were forbidden to be unified. read more