I have always understood Chamberlain's desperate reason for believing that Hitler had a desire for peace.After all,it had not been that long since the world had endured the terrible slaughter that was WW1.
But he totally misunderstood the mind of a maniac, a person so mad that he was able to convinced his followers of the concept of a superior Aryan race.A concept so ingrained in his demented mind that he ordered the mass slaughter of any minority of which the Jews especially were the most conspicous, followed by the Gypsies, other minorities and those with any mental or physical disability.
Under no circumstances can the Treaty of Versailles, in the immediate aftermath of WW1, be used as a means of excusing Hitler and his henchmen for their gross and hideous mistreatment of their fellow men/women.To their credit, the vast majority of the current German generation are bewildered and shamed by the grossly despicable acts of their forebears.
