British PM, Neville Chamberlain, returns home from Munich and tells the British people that his decision to let Hitler annex the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia will create “peace in our time”
Germany and Russia start World War 2 less than a year later.
Chamberlain is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler.
Following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on Germany two days later and led the United Kingdom through the first eight months of the war until his resignation as prime minister on 10 May 1940.
It is reported that Chamberlain's last words on his death bed were: "If only he (Hitler) hadn't lied".