Munich: The Edge of Nonsense

The movie Munich is well-written (based on Robert Harris's bestselling 2017 thriller), lavishly produced (by Netflix), fast-pacedโ€”and an absolute historical travesty. Ever since the 1980s, Harris has been trying to rehabilitate the reputation of Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who signed the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler in 1938, which destroyed the defensibility of Czechoslovakia overnight, and led to the Nazis occupying Prague in March 1939. Munich was an important step along the long via dolorosa of the 1930s towards World War Two, and an episode that greatly strengthened the Third Reich whilst enormously weakening Britain and France.ย ย 

"There seems to be a general feeling that he couldn't have done much else," Harris has said of Chamberlain. "He bought us precious...

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Feb 21st 2022
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