"It took the Big Four just five hours and twenty five minutes here in Munich today
to dispel the clouds of war and come to an agreement over the partition of
Czechoslovakia. There is to be no European war, after all. There is to be peace,
and the price of that peace is, roughly, the ceding by Czechoslovakia of the
Sudeten territory to Herr Hitler's Germany. The German Führer gets what he
wanted, only he has to wait a little longer for it. Not much longer though — only
ten days. . . ."
Source: William Shirer, recording of CBS radio report from Prague, September 29, 1938. noes for source
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This quote is from a CBS radio report by William Shirer on September 29, 1938, reflecting on the Munich Agreement. The Munich Agreement was a diplomatic agreement reached between Germany, Britain, France, and Italy that allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia with a predominantly German-speaking population. The agreement aimed to appease Hitler and prevent the outbreak of a European war. However, this agreement ultimately failed to prevent World War II, as Hitler later disregarded its terms and continued his expansionist policies.
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