193829–30 September 1938 · Munich

Munich Agreement

The front of the former Führerbau in Munich, where the 1938 agreement was signed — Photo: DanielMurray502. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In Hitler's new Führerbau on Munich's Königsplatz, the leaders of Germany, Britain, France and Italy agreed that Czechoslovakia must hand the Sudetenland to Germany; Czechoslovakia itself was not invited. Chamberlain returned home claiming 'peace for our time', but Germany occupied the rest of the Czech lands in March 1939, and 'Munich' became shorthand for appeasement.

Political History
Munich, Germany

Sites

Site 1: Führerbau, Arcisstraße 12Now a music school; the conference room survives inside.Map ↗
Site 2: Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National SocialismMuseum on the site of the Nazi party headquarters next door.Map ↗