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Munich is a 2017 historical novel by English writer Robert Harris. [1] The novel is set in September 1938 over four days in the context of the Munich Agreement . [ 2 ] The two main characters, both fictional, are Hugh Legat, private secretary to Neville Chamberlain , and Paul Hartmann, a German junior diplomat and member of an anti-Hitler group.
A debate on Munich began in the British House of Commons on 3 October. [citation needed] That day, a Conservative minister, Duff Cooper resigned in protest from his post as First Lord of the Admiralty. In his resignation speech on 3 October, Cooper said that Britain had "lost the courage to see things as they are" and that the country had been ...
Munich is a 2005 epic historical drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, co-written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth. It is based on the 1984 book Vengeance by George Jonas , an account of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre .
The Munich Agreement [a] was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy.The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived. [1]
Charles Albert lived during his time in Munich as Holy Roman Emperor at Nymphenburg Palace and died there in 1745. In 1747, Elector Max III. Joseph founded the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory. In 1792, Elector Charles Theodor opened the park for the public. For a long time, the palace was the favourite summer residence of the rulers of Bavaria.
Munich lies on the elevated plains of Upper Bavaria, about 50 km (31 mi) north of the northern edge of the Alps, at an altitude of about 520 m (1,706 ft) ASL. The local rivers are the Isar and the Würm. Munich is situated in the Northern Alpine Foreland.
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Some 28 people were hurt when a car driven by an Afghan asylum seeker ploughed into a crowd in Munich on Thursday in what the state premier said was probably an attack ...
National Socialism-Documentation Centre, Munich Inside the Documentation Centre, 2015 The NS-Dokumentationszentrum ( NSDOKU ) is a museum in the Maxvorstadt area of Munich , Germany , which focuses on the history and consequences of the National Socialist (Nazi) regime and the role of Munich as Hauptstadt der Bewegung (′capital of the ...