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TIL the British could have stopped Hitler in 1938 by refusing to sign the Munich Agreement. The German Army had a coup against the Nazis all set up and ready to go, but Chamberlain screwed up by allowing Hitler to take a chunk of Czechoslovakia without a fight.

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