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Throughout the course of the 1930s, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party has overwhelmingly, terrifyingly seized power in Germany. Now, Hitler’s vile ambitions have turned to Czechoslovakia. On the 12th of September 1938 at the Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, he rabidly defended the supposed interests of the German speaking minority in Czechoslovakia, claiming that they had been ravaged and tortured by their cruel Czech overlords, but not so. In reality, Hitler is preparing the ground for the invasion and dismemberment of Czechoslovakia - what he sees as a crucial step towards the creation of a new German dominion in central and eastern Europe. In so doing, he is setting Europe upon the road to an increasingly imminent Second World War. With Nazism driven above all by the shattering experience of the First World War, a hunger for war burns at the very centre of the Nazi’s ambitions. For Hitler, it is personal - the German economy is in meltdown and with it, his frayed mental and physical state. Was it possible, then, that at this crucial juncture in 1938, the outcome of war could be prevented? Certainly, Britain’s Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, was determined to make it so…
Join Tom and Dominic for the opening episode in their next series on the Nazis’ road to the Second World War. With European politics in turmoil, Adolf Hitler hungry for war, and Neville Chamberlain desperate to appease him, will there be peace in our time? At Munich, one of the most controversial diplomatic instances in history, the fate of the world will be decided.
This is episode 528 of The Rest Is History.
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Producer: Theo Young-Smith
Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett
Editor: Jack Meek
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Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor
00:00 Introducing the Munich Crisis
04:01 Munich as a political tool
04:35 The idea of war to the Nazis
08:07 Hitler’s foreign policy mood
11:41 Hitler steps up a gear
14:50 The window of opportunity begins to close
15:48 Ribbentrop
19:08 The value of Czechoslovakia
28:21 The timetable is accelerated
38:15 The plot emerges
45:05 Neville Chamberlain enters the story
51:50 The Czechoslovak story
56:05 Chamberlain makes his move