Showing posts with label Münich Conference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Münich Conference. Show all posts

Thursday, May 5, 2016

British PM Chamberlain Waves to Spectators in Münich

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waves to spectators from an open-top car, shortly after leaving Oberwiesenfeld airport on the way to a meeting with Adolf Hitler over the latter's threats to invade Czechoslovakia, Münich, Germany, 28 September 1938. Sensing a looming catastrophe, Chamberlain flew to Münich to meet with Hitler and other European leaders – to try to work out a 'peaceful' settlement to the growing 'crisis' (which was completely a fabrication of Hitler's). Ultimately Chamberlain signed an agreement in which Hitler promised that he had no more territorial ambitions towards Czechoslovakia beyond the Sudetenland (a complete lie), and in which Chamberlain promised that he would lean on the Czech president Beneš to peacefully deliver the Sudetenland to Germany. Chamberlain congratulated himself on this supposedly brilliant piece of statesmanship because he understood that through this agreement between Hitler and himself he had saved Europe from falling into another horrible shooting match and indeed had secured “peace in our time.”


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http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/british-prime-minister-neville-chamberlain-waves-to-news-photo/50537963
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/6de48dcd04bd124a.html
http://www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/03_The-World-since-1900/06_Dictatorship/06d_Steps-toward-War.htm

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Reception Ceremony of British PM Chamberlain in Münich

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (front row, second right) walks with past an Nazi honor guard from SS-Standarte Deutschland at his reception upon arriving at Oberwiesenfeld airport (Münich) on the way to a meeting with Adolf Hitler over the latter's threats to invade Czechoslovakia, September 28, 1938. Pictured are, from left to right: Gauleiter Adolf Wagner (NSDAP-Gauleiter von München, bayerischer Minister und SA-Obergruppenführer), SA-Obergruppenführer Franz Ritter von Epp (Reichsstatthalter von Bayern), SS-Obersturmbannführer Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (Kommandeur III.Sturmbann / SS-Standarte Deutschland), Reichsminister Joachim von Ribbentrop (Reichsminister des Auswärtigen), SS-Brigadeführer Christian Weber (Inspekteur der SS-Reitschulen), Chamberlain, SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Kurt Daluege (Chef der Deutschen Ordnungspolizei), SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich (Leiter der Politischen Abteilung der Polizeidirektion München), and Sir Neville Henderson (British Ambassador to Germany). The picture was taken by Hugo Jaeger. In the late 1930's Hugo Jaeger was an early adopter of color photos. When his work was introduced to the Führer, he liked what he saw. Between 1936 and 1945 he had unprecedented access to Hitler from public events to small private gatherings. Many colored photos were taken, including this one.


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http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/british-prime-minister-neville-chamberlain-walks-with-past-news-photo/50537900
http://timeinc-search-app-prod.elasticbeanstalk.com/?q=hugo+jaeger&site=time

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Edouard Daladier and Hermann Göring during Münich Agreement

French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier and German Generalfeldmarschall Hermann Göring (Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe) in an open-top sedan in Münich, Germany, 29 September 1938, during the conference for a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. SS officer standing behind Göring is SS-Hauptsturmführer Peter Hogl (Stellvertreter des Kommandoführer Johann Rattenhuber in der RSD, Reichssicherheitsdienst)


Source:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=211509&p=1910621#p1910621
http://life.time.com/?N=0&Nty=1&p=0&cmd=tags&srchCat=LIFE&s=hugo+jaeger