Adolf Hitler was after Sudetenland, the areas in Czechoslovakia that were predominantly populated by German speakers. These included the territories of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia. In this area, nationality politics wove the fabric of civil society. Hitler and the Germans were after the territory they lost during World War I, and Silesia was a part of that territory. There were roughly three and a quarter million German …show more content…
They wanted to avoid another World War at any cost, even if it meant giving up Czechoslovakia. The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlin, and the French Prime Minister, Edouard Daladier, met with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini to discuss a peace agreement. The Czech government was not consulted or even invited. The Soviets, the fifth major power at the time, were not asked to be involved either either. This seemed to “hinge on Chamberlin’s deep-rooted distrust of communism and on military advice, specifically the opinion of the Chiefs of Staff, that the Red Army had been so harmed by Stalin’s purge of the military leadership as to be incapable of effective …show more content…
He was sincerely hoping for a military strike on Czechoslovakia. But instead, it was just handed to him by the British and French in the name of peace. Hitler was by no means going to keep the promises he made at Munich but was happy to play the part as long as it got him what he wanted, even if it was not in the way he