re: #402 Targetpractice

Most of the hatred towards Chamberlain was the work of his detractors, Churchill amongst the most vocal of them. It’s pretty easy to impugn the character of a dead man, which Chamberlain was by war’s end (died of bowel cancer in ‘40). The ashes of the war hadn’t even settled before Churchill busied himself with his legacy, setting in stone the idea that he’d been the one who’d foreseen the evil of Hitler at Munich and called for Britain to take up arms, only for the “pacifists” under Chamberlain to think they could buy off Hitler with concessions.

Yeah seems to me that it’s the classic the survivors write history with Chamberlain. I have no great admiration for him fwiw but at the same time, him being the posterboy for “weakness” is propaganda.