Yes, we've seen this before. Watching the movie "Munich: The Edge of War" on Netflix

[NewHendoLib]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_%E2%80%93_The_Edge_of_War

It is excellent - of course most of us know about this (the Chamberlain visit to meet with Hitler to stop his start of the war) - but there was a scene early on, when two friends (who were at Oxford together) were having a beer together some years prior.

It was very chilling, because what they German were saying were EXACTLY what the TFGers were - and are - saying - and it is antivaxxers we are seeing in Canada as well.

It is a well done movie (Jeremy Irons plays Chamberlain) - and knowing how things would go does not temper the stress of watching it all unfold.

What an incredible deja vu moment, watching that.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Watching or reading anything about pre-WWII is chilling to the bone.

We are living it.

[NewHendoLib]

2. we are indeed deeply deeply living it. wow.

[Thunderbeast]

3. VERY good film!

Netflix producing some quality stuff!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. LOVE Jeremy Irons...Will watch that movie next.

Loved him as Rodrigo Borgia in The Borgias. Watching that again on Netflix.

Also when I toured Westminster Abbey in 2015, he was my audio guide for the 3 plus hours I was there touring every nook and cranny of that magnificent church.

[Wounded Bear]

5. There are legitimate correllaries to Munich and our present Ukraine crisis...nt

[JanMichael]

6. Chamberlain has gotten a bad rap.

Literally the only real options were to declare war on Germany immediately or wait.

Also I think France and the UK both had a hard time knowing HOW bad Hitler and Germany would get. He was obviously a nut but how nutty?

Plus they had "won" WWI less than 20 years prior and that war had scarred most European leaders deep. WWI was a disaster for soldiers and civilians. Trenches, mustard gas, flying war planes, charges into fire after tea at 2pm (or whenever).

Most leaders remembered WWI and wanted desperately to avoid repeating it.

Sadly WWII was worse than WWI for civilians in an astronomical way.

Good film though.

[peggysue2]

7. Watched and enjoyed the film

Chilling similarity to what we've seen and continue to see and hear.

I followed it up with Hitler's Inner Circle, a docudrama of Hitler's henchmen (also Netflix). I recall reading that the Former Guy's WH staff, his 'inner circle,' was a nest of vipers backstabbing one another, jostling for power and strokes from their beloved. People were constantly in or out depending on their performance or the Squatter-in-Chief's mood.

Boy, does that ever fit the Berlin crew like a glove, a circle of misfits, sycophants and sociopaths ready to climb over their colleagues/competition at the first opportunity. It became particularly savage as things fell apart.

Btw, I thought Irons was excellent in the role of Chamberlain in the Munich film. But then, he's usually excellent.