eptember 30, 1938, the Munich Agreement was signed in the capital city of Bavaria by Nazi Germany (Hitler), the United Kingdom (N. Chamberlain), the French Third Republic (E. Daladier) and the Kingdom of Italy (Mussolini). The Agreement’s core content was the resolution of the Sudeten crisis. Since 1933 Hitler had been claiming Sudetenland’s possession, as that Czech territory was mainly inhabited by German speakers. On September 12, 1938, Hitler threatened England and France to be willing to proceed with the violent annexation of that territory. That would have meant a further, maybe the ultimate, step towards an European war. The...