Eighty Years Ago This Week

Eighty years ago, Chamberlain's visit to Berchtesgaden starts a process that leaves Czechoslovakia's future in British hands

Eighty years ago, Hitler disappoints the pessimists, Chamberlain astonishes and delights with a flourish of melodrama and the butchery continues on the Ebro.

Eighty years ago, a distinguished English lady takes tea with Senora Franco, the British trade unions support rearmament and the Nazis achieve a fusion of themes