The prelude to WWII, started by Hitler, took place in Munich, the cradle of Nazism and where Hitler composed his anti-Semitically vitriolic book Mein Kampf, outlining his criminal ideology and future intentions. The British conservative primie minister Neville Chamberlain signed with Hitler the Munich Agreement whereby the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia was ceded to Germany, followed by the German invasion of the rest of the country a year later, completing the betrayal.

It was here that one of the most notorious and sadistic Nazis, Reinhard Heydrich, chose to reside. In due course he was killed by Czechoslovak resistance fighters which led to the German reprisal of exterminating and razing the village of Lidice.