EYES ON THE PRIZE August 1940: Hitler looks across the Channel from Calais, at what he believes will be his next conquest
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Neville Chamberlain had the measure of Adolf Hitler. Or so the British Prime Minister thought. In Chamberlain’s eyes, the Nazi leader was “The commonest little dog I have ever seen”. That was how he described Hitler to his cabinet shortly after returning from Munich in September 1938.
For a fortnight, the leaders of Britain, Germany, Italy and France discussed the future of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland – the German-speaking region that the Führer was determined to annex.