Adolph Hitler Character Analysis

Adolph Hitler was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. In 1938, Hitler met with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on three separate occasions to discuss Hitler’s intentions to invade the Sudetenland, a move Chamberlain feared would lead to a world war. Hitler successfully convinced Chamberlain that he only wanted to invade the Sudetenland (an ethnically German region of Czechoslovakia) and had no interest in a world war. The men signed an agreement, and Chamberlain returned to the United Kingdom confident in the success of the negotiations. But in March 1939, Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia, and in September 1939, he invaded Poland, which initiated World War II. Gladwell includes Chamberlain’s failed negotiations with Hitler to explore the odd phenomenon that people can fail to recognize when someone is lying to their face.