The Daily Mail, which had previously been positive about Hitler and the brownshirts, enthusiastically supported Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement.
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How newspapers reported the risk of war in the age of appeasement.
Austrian-Jewish child refugees aboard the ship Prague on its arrival at Harwich during the Kindertransport in 1938.
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10,000 children, from mostly Jewish families, were saved from the Nazis by the Kindertransport visa-waiver scheme, which started in 1938.
Boris Johnson signs copies of his Churchill biography in 2014.
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Both Churchill and Johnson had a complicated relationship with the Conservative Party.
‘Peace for our time’: British prime minister Neville Chamberlain displaying the Anglo-German declaration, known as the Munich Agreement, in September 1938.
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Oversimplified versions of the past lead to bad political decisions.
Oliver Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament.
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First uttered by Oliver Cromwell, the words David Davis used to ask Boris Johnson to step down have a storied past.
British prime minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938 with his ‘piece of paper’ ensuring peace in Europe.
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The Post’s editor, Arthur Mann, withstood extreme pressure to fall in with orthodox political thinking over appeasement with Nazi Germany.
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Their crucial contribution to anti-appeasement remains unrecognised, but LGBT+ History Month provides an ideal opportunity to acknowledge this brave group of MPs.
Neville Chamberlain wanted to avoid war at all costs. Adolf Hitler felt differently.
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Press secretary George Steward had clandestine meetings with Nazi officials as he worked for appeasement with Germany before the second world war.