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TIL In 1938 the timid Neville Chamberlain signed a treaty allowing Hitler to keep European land after a German invasion. By appeasing Hitler, Chamberlain believed he was preventing war. Historians widely regard this as a bad move. Almost exactly one year later, Hitler invaded Poland.

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