this was agreed upon by the prime ministers of great britain and france, nevel chamberlin and edouarddaladi, the leader of the italian fascists benito mussolini and hitler himself. they gathered in the capital of bavaria, munich, in the personal office of the head of the third reich, the führerbau, the führer's house. hitler threatened war if he was not given the sudetenland under the pretext that it was populated mainly by germans, but he was even more interested in the industry, machine-building, metallurgical weapons factories located there. the british and the french had a chance to defend czechoslovakia, but only together with the ussr, and neither london nor paris wanted this, they did not want to fight at all, and a document was signed that the czech prime minister eduard beneš called a treaty of betrayal. together with germany, part of the czechoslovak territory was appropriated by poland and hungary, and chamberlain, returning home, pathetically declared to england that he had brought peace, but as winston churchill said, when choosing between war and shame, the british chose