In 1938 upon returning to England after singing a peace agreement with Hitler, Neville Chamberlin famously said that this was "peace for our time". Just one year later, England would be declaring war on Germany after their invasion of Poland. How did this agreement with Hitler that he had no more plans for territorial gain end up in the biggest and bloodiest conflict in human history?

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