#OTD in 1938
‘Ethnic Germans in #Saaz, #Czechoslovakia, greet German soldiers with the Nazi salute, 9 October 1938.’
That year’s Treaty of Munich had given Nazi Germany the #Sudetenland - a part of Czecho-Slovakia inhabited largely by ethnic Germans.
#appeasement
#Appeasement, in an international context, was a diplomatic negotiation policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power with intention to avoid conflict.
