• azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      More like “Germany plz stop occupying Czechoslovakia”.

      Much of Europe celebrated the Munich Agreement, as they considered it a way to prevent a major war on the continent. Adolf Hitler announced that it was his last territorial claim in Northern Europe. Today, the Munich Agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement, and the term has become “a byword for the futility of appeasing expansionist totalitarian states.”

      “Ah, darts. We didn’t appease the discourse hard enough. You can keep Czechoslovakia if you pinky-promise not to invade any more countries! If you do, we’ll be forced, to, uh, you’ll see, and you better believe we’ll do it!” (Narrator: They didn’t, in fact, do anything when Germany invaded Poland).

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        It was a whole bunch of that.

        • Remilitarization of the Rhineland.

        • Anschluß of Austria.

        • The Sudetenland.

        • The actual invasion of Czechoslovakia.

        Nazi Germany really pulled “whatcha gonna do about this, bitch?” and got away with it for a surprisingly long time.