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Article: DESPITE MUNICH'S LEGACY, ACCOMMODATION HAS A PLACE MEETING 50 YEARS AGO HELPED BREED WORLD WAR II.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- October 2, 1988
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Byline: Lothar Kahn
In late September 1938 Europe was teetering on the brink of war. Armies were mobilized and poised to strike. Adolf Hitler had issued an ultimatum threatening war against Czechoslovakia. The British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, made three unprecedented flights to Germany.
At the eleventh-hour an invitation came from Hitler, with the connivance of Italy's Benito Mussolini, for the French, British, Italian and German heads of government to meet in Munich in one last effort to solve the Sudetenland crisis. In Hitler's language of the time, he could no longer tolerate the racial abuse of the Sudeten Germans by the Czech ...