20 Mind-Blowing Facts About Adolf Hitler

10. Hitler Was TIME Magazine's Man Of The Year For 1938

Hitler TIME Magazine
TIME Magazine

"I have returned from Germany with peace for our time," were the infamous words uttered by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on his return from the Munich Conference in September 1938. That conference - conducted between French Premier Edouard Daladier, Italian leader Benito Mussolini, Hitler, and Chamberlain himself - was perceived at the time to have prevented a world war due to the fact Germany were granted the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia.

Such a monumental event of "peacekeeping" led Hitler to be named "without a doubt" as TIME magazine's Man of the Year for 1938. Incredible when you think about it now...

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