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The Munich conference \u2013 a two-day summit in the Bavarian city in September 1938 at which Britain and France tamely rubber-stamped Adolf Hitler<\/a>\u2019s dismemberment of Czechoslovakia \u2013 has become shorthand for shame, humiliation, and the culmination of the appeasement policy<\/a> vainly pursued by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain\u2019s government.<\/p>\n The disastrous consequences of the Munich Agreement<\/a> \u2013 a demonstration of weakness by the Western Allies that emboldened Hitler to step up his aggression and brought the beginning of WW2 only a year later<\/a> \u2013 were such that the name has been used ever since, in crises from Suez<\/a> to the Falklands<\/a> and the Iraq war, as a byword for a feeble failure to stand up to brutal dictators.<\/p>\n There is, however, another reading of Munich, and this is the one delivered by new film Munich \u2013The Edge of War<\/em>. Faithful to a fault to the 2017 Robert Harris novel on which it is based, the January 2022 movie sees Munich as the moment when Whitehall finally awoke to the evil of Nazism, and portrays the elderly Chamberlain as an almost saintly figure ready to martyr himself in the cause of peace.<\/p>\nMunich \u2013 The Edge of War Trailer: get a glimpse of the film<\/h2>\n