Even before the Anschluss was completed, Adolf Hitler was already laying plans to invade and annex Czechoslovakia.
But at the last minute, Neville Chamberlain intervened, much to Hitler’s annoyance, and brokered the Munich Agreement, which ceded the Sudetenland to Germany, but preserved an independent Czechoslovakia.
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Another great episode. I really enjoy the podcast and am in awe of the amount of reading and thoughtful interpretation that you must do for each topic. I’m relistening to the earlier episodes and enjoying them all over again. I really appreciate the emphasis on non US history, since here in the US we get a skewed view. Keep up the good work!