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A Dark Day in Munich: 'Peace in Our Time'

A Dark Day in Munich: 'Peace in Our Time'

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (front row, second right) walks past a Nazi honor guard on the way to a meeting with Adolf Hitler in 1938. After the meeting, Chamberlain famously declared that the agreement he had struck with the German Fuhrer meant "peace in our time" -- but subsequent events showed that he had merely whetted Hitler's appetite by handing over a strategically critical part of Czechoslovakia during their negotiations. See the room where the Munich Agreement was signed, and other public and personal places central to the Reich, in Hitler's Private World.

In this photo: Adolf Wagner, Franz Ritter von Epp, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Neville Chamberlain, Neville Henderson

Photo: Hugo Jaeger./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Sep 28, 1938