Don't Be Duped

Orig. Post: 2011-03-29

Neville Chamberlain never read Mein Kampf, in which Hitler laid out in startling fashion both his future plans for the Jews and for German conquest.

Far from viewing Hitler as an evil man, Chamberlain believed him to be a “gentleman,” with whom he could do business.  He was more than once shocked to find that Hitler had lied to him, even though that too was foreshadowed in Mein Kampf.

Said future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, “He didn’t believe people existed [who would] say one thing and do another. . . . It was pathetic, really.”