‘I cannot remember’, wrote Tétaz, ‘ever hearing a more sensational piece of news than the announcement of Chamberlain’s meeting with Hitler at Berchtesgaden.’ ‘You’ll see,’ one colleague said to him, ‘peace will be preserved and Hitler will achieve his goal without violence. If Germany and England were not already fundamentally united, old Chamberlain wouldn’t have risked going to Berchtesgaden and becoming the scapegoat had the meeting failed.’ The Nazi was triumphant.
