All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

by Rebecca Donner

They intend to assassinate Hitler when he invades Czechoslovakia, which they predict will happen any day now. Already, Hitler has positioned troops along the Czech border and is threatening to attack unless the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia is surrendered to Germany. The conspirators urge the British government to oppose Hitler’s land grab. But Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain attempts to negotiate with Hitler instead, hoping to avoid armed conflict. In a September 27 BBC radio broadcast, Chamberlain describes Hitler’s warmongering in Czechoslovakia as “a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.”