A picture of Chamberlain showing the agreement he signed with Hitler has been doing the rounds.
A lot of people are saying that he was aware that Britain was 'woefully unprepared' to go to war and the Munich agreement allowed for an increase in war preparations. Is this true?
Did British military spending/production/preparations increase immediately after the Munich agreement? And if so, was it as part of a set plan in which Chamberlain was involved, or simply a natural response to Germany's expansion?
Did Chamberlain have a plan and was he judged too harshly by posterity, or is this a case of reddit revisionism?
While more can always be said, I've addressed this revisionist theory a few times before, including last week. The evidence is compelling that Chamberlain was no 5 dimensional chess player with a master plan stalling for time; he was instead a genuine believer that appeasement by territorial concessions would bring long lasting peace and, if anything, felt that arms spending could be reduced afterwards.
If you've got a minute, please PM me some links to where these discussions are taking place.