[Leaning Right]

The Czech region that was awarded to Hitler (the so-called Sudetenland) was heavily fortified by the Czechs. Furthermore, the region was mountainous and so was ill-suited for panzers.

If the West had not stabbed the Czechs in the back at Munich, the Czech army would have given Hitler one heck of a bloody nose, or worse.

And there is a second point to consider. Stalin saw the results of Munich and concluded that the West was too weak to oppose Hitler. And that's one of the reasons Stalin decided to ally with Germany in 1939. That alliance give Hitler the opportunity to start WW II.

Nothing good came out of Munich.

[RedMonqey]

Stalin saw the results of Munich and concluded that the West was too weak to oppose Hitler.

Exactly.

Stalin was feeling out the West for allies against Hitler but seeing the actions of Britain and France, rightly sized them up as weak, fickled and gasping whereas Hitler, an foe he knew the communists would have to fight eventually, made the devil's bargain with Hitler to buy time to get the Red Army's (whose leadership was decimated by Stalin's purges)ready to fight.

Hence poor Poland, whose fredom from forgeign dictarship the war was started, was damned in the end to the same results.

[dfwgator]

“Our enemies are little worms, I saw them at Munich” - Hitler to his generals.