Recounting the subsequent meeting to his sister Hilda, Chamberlain described the conversation as “very friendly and pleasant.”33 The interpreter Paul Schmidt, on the other hand, thought Hitler “moody” and absentminded.34 Certainly, it was the Prime Minister who led the Führer through a variety of topics, including Spain, economic relations in southeastern Europe, and aerial disarmament. At the end, he produced the joint statement from his pocket, the crucial passage of which was the declaration that the two leaders regarded the Munich Agreement “as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples
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