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Bad Godesberg Meeting

Great Britain · Government / National Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

15Records
1938Date range
2Named people
5Places

Chronological records

1938

Neville Chamberlain22 September 1938

Bad Godesberg · Government / National Government

Hitler receives Chamberlain & demands the immediate cession of all Sudetenland

Neville Chamberlain22 September 1938

Bad Godesberg · Government / National Government

Offers Hitler the Sudetenland. Chamberlain offers the dissolution of the Czech alliances with France & Russia

Neville Chamberlain22 September 1938

Bad Godesberg · Government / National Government

Chamberlain presented the Anglo-French transfer plan that Czechoslovakia had accepted under pressure.

Neville Chamberlain22 September 1938

Cologne · Government / National Government

Chamberlain arrived near Cologne before continuing by train and motorcade to Bad Godesberg.

Neville Chamberlain22 September 1938

Heston Airport · Government / National Government

Chamberlain flew from Heston to Germany for his second personal meeting with Hitler.

Horace Wilson22 September 1938

Bad Godesberg · Government / National Government

Horace Wilson advised Chamberlain during the negotiations and helped assess the German response.

Neville Chamberlain23 September 1938

Bad Godesberg · Government / National Government

Chamberlain continued discussions while British officials sought written clarification of Hitler’s expanded demands.

Neville Chamberlain23 September 1938

Hotel Dreesen · Government / National Government

Chamberlain received the German memorandum and accompanying map during the final Godesberg discussions.

Horace Wilson23 September 1938

Bad Godesberg · Government / National Government

Wilson participated in discussions over the wording and implications of the German memorandum.

Neville Chamberlain24 September 1938

Bad Godesberg · Government / National Government

Chamberlain left Godesberg after failing to secure Hitler’s acceptance of the Anglo-French plan.

Neville Chamberlain24 September 1938

London · Government / National Government

Chamberlain reported that the negotiations had ended without agreement and that the danger of war had increased.

Neville Chamberlain24 September 1938

London · Government / National Government

Chamberlain returned to London and placed the Godesberg memorandum before the Cabinet.

Neville Chamberlain25 September 1938

London · Government / National Government

Chamberlain considered whether a revised timetable and international supervision could bridge the remaining dispute.

Neville Chamberlain27 September 1938

London · Government / National Government

Chamberlain addressed the British public as Europe prepared for a possible war over Czechoslovakia.

Neville Chamberlain28 September 1938

London · Government / National Government

Chamberlain received Hitler’s invitation to a four-power conference after the Godesberg crisis approached war.

Names involved

Horace WilsonNeville Chamberlain

Provenance

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