Munich: Did you mean...?

The Munich Agreement, signed on 30 September 1938 at the Munich Conference attended by the leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, handed over the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany in the hope that this act of appeasement...

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 440–430 BCE, attributed to Kresilas. Glyptothek (room 3), in Munich.

A photograph showing members of the Nazi paramilitary during the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in November 1923. (German Federal Archives)

A photograph showing (left to right) Neville Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini, the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, respectively. They are about to...

A photograph showing the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) arriving at Heston airport after the Munich Agreement of September 1938. Chamberlain is waving a paper signed by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945...

A 1938 photograph of the ruined Ohel Yaakov synagogue in Munich, Germany. The Nazis orchestrated Kristallnacht (‘Night of Broken Glass’), an attack on Jews and Jewish property across Germany and Austria on 9-10...

A watercolour titled The Courtyard of the Old Residency in Munich painted by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in 1914. (United States Army Center of Military History)

Bust of Septimius Severus (reign 193–211 CE). White, fine-grained marble, modern restorations (nose, parts of the beard, draped bust). Glyptothek, Munich.

The Beer Hall Putsch or Munich Putsch was a failed attempt by the German National Socialist (Nazi) Party to seize power, first of the Bavarian and then the German federal government on 8-9 November 1923. The coup, led by Adolf...

Throughout 1938, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the leader of Nazi Germany, threatened to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. The excuse presented was that Sudeten Germans were being repressed but Hitler...