Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler

 

Neville Chamberlain And Adolf Hitler settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia, September 30, 1938

In 1935 Chamberlain branded Hitler's Germany “the bully of Europe” and later described the German dictator as a “lunatic.” Remarkably, however, he came to believe that he could trust Hitler. “I had established a certain confidence [over him] which was my aim,” Chamberlain claimed after his first meeting with the Führer, during the Czech crisis. “I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word.”