On This Day in History: September 30

Chamberlain appeases Hitler

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How can you witness the murderous fuckery Hitler committed throughout the 1930s and say, “Here is a guy we can trust”? British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did just that with a dumbfuck agreement that sacrificed Czechoslovakia in a quest for peace that never stood a chance.

--On This Day in History, Shit Went Down: September 30, 1938--

Some apologize for Chamberlain. Not me. Fuck that guy. People knew what a shitburger Hitler was and rather than mobilize and prepare for a war that was inevitable, Chamberlain let Hitler give him and the rest of Europe a sea urchin enema. Hitler had already built up a massive military and annexed Austria as part of building a greater German empire, then looked at the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia and laid claim to it because a bunch of German-speaking folk lived there. The Czech government said to Britain and France please don’t let this fascist fuckpuddle destroy our country. So French Prime Minister Daladier and Chamberlain flew to Germany to see if they could work some shit out. Mussolini was there too. Dick.

Hitler of course was an arrogant cockwipe and Chamberlain kept mewling like a beaten kitten giving in to Hitler’s ever-increasing demands. Daladier, however, ordered French troops to start mobilizing and Chamberlain was oh don’t do that you’ll antagonize him. Hitler said taking the Sudetenland was “The last territorial demand I have to make in Europe” and Chamberlain believed that load of shite.

What resulted was the Munich Agreement. Signed on September 30, 1938, it was some bullshit. Daladier hated the appeasement. Chamberlain, conversely, stayed behind to pal around with Hitler and signed another document that was supposed to maintain peaceful relations between Britain and Germany. Chamberlain went home and said hey everyone I kept the peace. It’s “peace with honor,” because handing over a big chunk of Czechoslovakia to that fascist fuckstick was honorable. And yeah, right after signing Czechoslovakia did hand over the Sudetenland because without France and Britain backing them up they knew it was a matter of Czech yourself before you wreck yourself. In so doing, Czechoslovakia gave Germany two-thirds of its coal, steel, and electrical power creation.

The peace was bullshit. It was a ploy to put France and Britain at ease while Hitler continued his militarization and imperial expansions. The following March Hitler decided fuck it I want the rest of Czechoslovakia and invaded, violating the Munich Agreement. Chamberlain was all I guess we’re not doing appeasement anymore. But it would take another six months, with Hitler invading Poland, before Britain would declare war on Germany.

Speaking of that big fucking war, if Chamberlain had a fucking spine, things could have been less catastrophic because France was ready to go, Czechoslovakia had a good military willing to fight for their home, and the Soviets had Czechoslovakia’s back too. Hitler might have been stopped earlier on. But of course Chamberlain had to go be a goddamn invertebrate. Winston Churchill, who’d been warning about Hitler for years, excoriated Chamberlain, saying, “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”

Thanks, Veronica, for the suggestion of today’s topic.

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