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Correct. I also think people are too harsh on Chamberlain. One has to remember the context back then: That generation had experienced WW1 less than 20yrs beforehand and were desperate to avoid a repeat. They were also trying to buy time for their own rearmament. That is not the case (entirely) with the current situation.

We've had that discussion elsewhere on the site, and I want to avoid that rabbit-hole. Suffice it to say that I find the "buying time" argument specious, but I don't want to clutter this thread needlessly.
 
Correct. I also think people are too harsh on Chamberlain. One has to remember the context back then: That generation had experienced WW1 less than 20yrs beforehand and were desperate to avoid a repeat. They were also trying to buy time for their own rearmament. That is not the case (entirely) with the current situation.
Nobody was dupe about the value of the agreements signed at Munich on the French or British sides.
As Daladier, French President of the Council of Ministers said at Le Bourget, seeing the crowd acclaiming him :
" Ah the idiots! If they knew ... ''
 
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