Historical place archive

Berchtesgaden in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Berchtesgaden in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

5 records3 event labels3 people1936–1938

Historical events in Berchtesgaden

1936

September 1936
Visit to Berchtesgaden
David Lloyd George · Liberal Party

Visits Hitler, repoorts back that Hitler is arming for defence not attack. Impressed by Hitler's conquest of unemployment

1937

December 1937
Halifax & Hitler, discuss practical questions involved in a European settlement
Neville Chamberlain · National Government

Halifax & Hitler, "discuss practical questions involved in a European settlement"

December 1937
Visit to Berchtesgaden
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood · National Government

Visits Hitler at Berchtesgaden, despite opposition from the Foreign Office

1938

15 September 1938
Treaty of Munich
Neville Chamberlain · National Government

Chamberlain met Hitler at Berchtesgaden and heard his demand that German-majority districts be transferred from Czechoslovakia.

15 September 1938
Visit to Berchtesgaden
Neville Chamberlain · National Government

Visits Hitler who tells Chamberlain that he will annex the Sudetenland

Provenance

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