Extract from the minutes of the conversation between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden

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I was then going on to some further questions on the subject when he said: “But all this seems to be academic; I want to get down to realities.  Three hundred Sudetens have been killed and things of that kind cannot go on; the thing has got to be settled at once: I am determined to settle it: I do not care whether there is a world war or not: I am determined to settle it and to settle it soon and I am prepared to risk a world war rather than allow this to drag on.”

To that I replied: “If the Fuehrer is determined to settle this matter by force without waiting even for a discussion between ourselves to take place what did he let me come here for?  I have wasted my time.