What is the evaluation of Chamberlain's political career in the past century?
In fact, in both world wars, the Polish nationalist army** was extremely discriminatory against the German minority.
In September 1939, when the German invasion began, Poland, fearing the deliberate destruction of the hinterland by the Germans, arrested between 10,000 and 150,000 Germans and deported them to the East. During the expulsion, the Poles not only beat those who walked slowly, but also shot many people who could not walk due to exhaustion. The attacks on the German minority were so widespread that many of them, from the moment they were forced to reunite with Poland after World War I, made no secret of their desire to rejoin the German Empire"。
* The uplift made it impossible for Reich Prime Minister Chamberlain to maintain that silence, which, although he had to do so, could only give a sense of cowardice and stupidity, and Chamberlain probably prayed in his heart at some point that his wait and wait would bring about some kind of change in the events themselves, but it was clear that neither Berlin nor Moscow could and would not wait any longer, and if he waited any longer, the situation would change. Hitler personally called Stalin with a demand to end Soviet-German cooperation as soon as possible, and Moscow apparently had the same idea, and everyone immediately agreed that the suffering of the British Empire had really begun.
Moscow's reply to the German Führer soon reached Berlin, the Third Reich did not expect Moscow to accept his request so quickly, all this was undoubtedly a good start for the Third Reich, the decision-makers of the Third Reich were immediately infected by a cheerful mood, they were all full of optimism about the future, and even began to clench their fists, this was the best time to turn on the propaganda machine, the Reich's propaganda minister Goebbels obviously did not want to miss this opportunity, so the lazy Dr. Chi seized the opportunity.
Reich Propaganda Minister Goebbels immediately held a press conference and announced to the world the important news that Moscow would join forces with Berlin, which can be described as a stone that stirred up a thousand waves, although the venue was full of reporters and industry workers who were accustomed to seeing big news, but the bigwigs were obviously stunned by this news without warning in advance, and the packed venue immediately caused an uproar!There was immediately chaos in the venue.
I don't know if this was Goebbels' intention, because Goebbels had always liked to transform the image of the Third German Reich into something indescribable in every way, but, after Goebbels' announcement, perhaps for the benefit of British journalists, the church bells rang just outside the hall, and these British journalists could not help but look up at the sky, and every single one of them knew it"The fatal blow of the British Empire has been unmistakably struck. "[1]
But after Goebbels' announcement, perhaps for the benefit of British journalists, the church bells rang just outside the hall, and these British journalists could not help but look up at the sky, as each and every one of them knew,"The fatal blow of the British Empire has been unmistakably struck.
Chamberlain had seen the threat of the Third German Reich, but he had also seen the threat of the Red Soviet Union, but he thought that these two powerful forces would one day unite, but he didn't dare to think about it anymore
Both the Soviet-German alliance and the British Empire were a nightmare, and the establishment of the Soviet-German alliance proved that Chamberlain's appeasement conspiracy was the collapse of the grand strategy, the problem was still a failure, at both offensive and defensive ends, for the German Third Reich, they had a huge resource-rich background, how to keep the British Empire alive?
World War II clearly passed through the decades, Chamberlain, who was the prime minister of the empire at the time, was already old and ruined by the breadth of history, from the perspective of the whole history, Chamberlain was not a stupid imperial prime minister, nor was he an incompetent imperial helmsman, and what brought us more difficult to describe was the great tragedy of the sunset in the empire
In Chamberlain's political career, there was a cliff that stretched in front of him like a chasm and made him insurmountable, that is, Chamberlain had a far-reaching strategic vision and a shrewd strategic vision, but the historical environment was like a chasm in front of him, making him insurmountable, that is, Chamberlain had a far-reaching strategic vision and a shrewd strategic vision, but the historical environment was like a chasm in front of him, making him insurmountable. In Chamberlain's political career, the abyss in front of him was like a ravine, making him insurmountable, that is, Chamberlain had great strategy and a keen strategic vision, but the huge gap between historical circumstances and personal manipulation and strategic vision was his greatest tragedy.
World War I brought great suffering to the British Empire, and Chamberlain under extreme pacifism could be said to be dancing in shackles, and in the face of huge military pressure, he could only use his own diplomatic means to make up for it as much as possible and postpone the final war, but how could military problems be solved by diplomatic means?What's more, in the face of Chamberlain's opponents, Hitler, Stalin and other most powerful politicians in the 20th century, Chamberlain could only do his best in the storm, but he could not change the destiny of heaven. Chamberlain's colossal defeat stemmed from the internal stability that Chamberlain's cabinet valued most, and Chamberlain's loss of control and collapse was perhaps the black humor of history.
In the middle of Chamberlain's crusade before World War II, in the early days when he could not take the lead in pushing the wall to break the ice, because to observe the situation, it could only be done in secret, Chamberlain can undoubtedly be said to have been overly cautious, and at all costs, lost Austria and later even Czechoslovakia through counterattacks.
At the same time, in the face of Chamberlain, who had just woken up from a dream, he had to show a tough posture and become an adventurous imperial prime minister, in order to protect the three delicate tiger wolves of Poland, Romania and Greece, and before he knew it, he suddenly became the focus of direct attention behind the scenes
The British Empire was mired in a climate of terrible isolation, and Chamberlain's deliberate strategy of appeasement, which seemed wise and invulnerable, suddenly turned into a reversal of the situation and ultimately a source of fear.
When some look back at the political career of Reich Prime Minister Neville during World War II, they tend to portray him as a humble and loyal old man, believing that his defeat was the result of a courtship to Hitler, but this is undoubtedly wishful thinking, and Chamberlain underestimated the tactics of Hitler and Stalin not so much as overestimating the goodwill of Berlin and Moscow. The tragedy of Chamberlain's policy was that he saw only the light of the British Empire and did not see the ambitions of those who came after him.