100 Historical Stories That Unlock Teenage Wisdom

Chapter 73 10 Ridiculous Munich Conspiracies

Chapter 710 The Ridiculous Munich Conspiracy
——You can’t hold firewood to fight a fire. If you hold firewood to fight a fire, it will only increase the fire.When faced with the unreasonable demands of others, one cannot just be patient and satisfied blindly, because appeasement is tantamount to connivance.

In the middle of the night on September 1938, 9, outside the conference hall in the southern German city of Munich, a group of journalists holding cameras and movie cameras were anxiously waiting for something. They looked tired, as if they had been waiting for a long time.

In the conference hall at this time, Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, and Mussolini, the heads of government of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, were discussing enthusiastically.

In a room separated from the conference hall by a wall, two representatives from the Czech government were also fidgeting, as if they were prisoners waiting to be sentenced.

At around 1:[-] in the morning, the door of the conference hall finally opened, and Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, and Mussolini came out from inside. Except for Hitler who seemed very excited, the others looked very tired.

As a result, the tired reporters who were waiting outside surrounded them as quickly as possible, set up their equipment, and prepared to shoot.

Then, amidst the flickering spotlights of photojournalists and the sound of movie cameras turning, representatives of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy signed the "Munich Agreement."According to the "Munich Agreement", the Czech Republic must begin to withdraw its troops from the Sudetenland area on October 1938, 10 and complete it before October 1.

The agreement was read out to two Czech representatives after Britain, France, Germany, and Italy signed the agreement.

Under strong pressure, the Czech government had to accept the "Munich Agreement" within the limited 6 hours.

After Hitler annexed his motherland, Austria, he had already planned in his mind the plan to annex the whole of Europe, but in order to achieve his goal, he had to take down the Czech Republic first.

Although Hitler had already revealed his ambition of aggression and expansion at that time, Britain and France still had illusions about Hitler. They, who followed appeasement, began to make all kinds of unreasonable demands on Hitler in order to lead this disaster to the socialist Soviet Union for profit. Satisfaction, to achieve their own goals by sacrificing the interests of small and weak countries.

Chamberlain and Daladier were intoxicated by the "Munich Agreement". After Chamberlain returned to the UK from Munich, he delivered a speech at London Airport. He held up the "Munich Agreement" and said: "Peace in our era has come." But he did not expect it Unfortunately, in March 1939, the German army occupied the entire territory of the Czech Republic and incorporated the Czech Republic into the territory of the German Empire. Slovakia also became a vassal state of Germany, and the "Munich Agreement" became a waste of paper. On September 3, 1939, fascist Germany attacked its neighboring Poland with a blitzkrieg. On September 9, Britain and France were forced to declare war on Germany, and the Second World War broke out.

Britain and France sold the Sudetenland region of the Czech Republic to Germany, and then gave the entire Czech Republic to Hitler. The scandal of selling the Czech Republic to Germany starring Britain and France is known as the "Munich Conspiracy" in history.

It is necessary to explain the "appeasement policy" here.On the eve of World War II, Germany and other fascist countries invaded the outside world. In order to protect their vested interests, Britain, France and other countries pushed fascist countries to attack the Soviet Union and signed the "Munich Agreement" with Germany on September 1938, 9.With the connivance of the policy of appeasement, fascist Germany provoked the Second World War.Britain and France reaped their own consequences and were attacked by fascists.Since then, appeasement has become synonymous with condoning aggression and appeasement.

Wisdom Interpretation:

Su Xun, a litterateur in the Northern Song Dynasty, said in "Theory of the Six Kingdoms": "Bribing Qin with the land is like putting out a fire with a salary.If you take a calmer attitude, others will gain ground.

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