MUNICH: THE EDGE OF WAR INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT HARRIS & CHRISTIAN SCHWOCHOW

n late September 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain met German dictator Adolf Hitler in Munich. As the film title Munich: The Edge of War suggests, this conference occurred when the Nazi ruler threatened a large-scale conflict in Europe due to his aggressive policy known as Lebensraum (Living Space), where the Germans sought to colonise territories to the east. Billed by Chamberlain as “peace for our time” – words criticised almost as soon as he’d uttered them – the Munich Agreement might as well have been written in disappearing ink, because it took less than a year for the Nazi regime to break its