British statesman and prime minister Neville Chamberlain (1869 - 1940) at Heston Airport on his return from Munich after meeting with Hitler, making his 'peace in our time' address. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) receives a rapturous reception on his return to Berlin from Munich after securing the Munich Agreement, 2nd October 1938. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Haile Selassie (1891 - 1975), emperor of Ethiopia, visits the battle front at Dessye during war in Abyssinia. He is standing on an unexploded bomb. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Japanese troops entering Manchuria in the wake of the so-called Mukden Incident during the Sino-Japanese War. After a bomb of unknown origin damaged the Japanese railway near Shenyang (Mukden), the Japanese Kwantung army guarding the railway used the incident as a pretext to occupy south Manchuria and eventually to set up a puppet government. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The people of Hainspach in Czech Sudetenland welcome the German troops with a banner which reads 'Wir Danken Unserem Fuhrer!' ('We Thank Our Leader'), 2nd October 1938. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

German Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler has written 'JA !' on his calendar on April 10, 1938 thus celebrating the success of his plebiscite asking Austrians to ratify the Anschluss and the annexation of Austrian into Greater Germany. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

20th September 1938: Monsieur Edouard Daladier (1884 - 1970), the French Premier, (on the left) with members of the French cabinet after a meeting about the handing over of Sudeten Territory. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Austrian women wave swastikas at Salzburg to celebrate the union of Austria and Germany (Anschluss) following the German occupation. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

8th June 1939: German chancellor Adolf Hitler (centre, left) and politico-military leader Hermann Goering (centre, right) descend a staircase at the Lustgarten, Berlin, between lines of German airmen of the Condor Legion. The men are holding up plaques of colleagues who died in the Spanish Civil War. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)