In 1938, Nazi Germany began occupying the Sudetenland after a notorious peace agreement
The 1938 occupation of the Sudetenland serves as a haunting reminder of the failures of appeasement, as European powers sacrificed Czechoslovakian territory in a desperate, futile attempt to prevent a second world war.
Following the infamous Munich Agreement, Nazi German troops crossed the border into the Sudetenland on October 1, 1938. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had hoped that ceding this German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia to Hitler would ensure 'peace for our time,' but the move only emboldened the Nazi regime.
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