Latest / Everything Jewish - 10 Minutes at a Time
Munich 1938 Appeasement in 10 Minutes
In the tense autumn of 1938, as Nazi Germany massed troops on the borders of Czechoslovakia and the specter of another European war loomed, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain boarded a plane for Munich, clutching the hope that one more concession might satisfy Adolf Hitler's appetite for territory. There, in a hastily arranged conference with France, Italy, and the Führer himself, the Western democracies agreed to carve away the Sudetenland—handing over a sovereign nation's defenses in exchange for a scrap of paper promising "peace for our time." This episode unpacks the high-stakes…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.