| Description | Photographed by E.H. Sargeant. View of sandbags outside the Council House, Birmingham, taken during the 1938 Crisis. The 'Crisis 1938' no doubt refers to the Munich Crisis. The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, met with President Adolf Hitler of Germany to resolve a diplomatic crisis in which Hitler had threatened to invade Czechoslovakia unless he was allowed to annexe the largely German-speaking Sudetenland of that country. On 29 September 1938 a four-power conference between Britain, France, Italy and Germany was held, where it was agreed that Germany would annexe the Sudetenland on the condition that Hitler made no more territorial demands in Europe. |