“He won’t stop.” Merz compares Putin to Hitler and remembers the Sudetenland

“Just as the Sudetenland was not enough in 1938, Putin will not stop”, said Friedrich Merz during a party conference in Germany, in a reference to the treaty known in the Czech Republic as “the Betrayal of Munich”.

The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merzcompared Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitlerin a speech given on Saturday night, warning that the Kremlin leader’s ambitions they won’t stay for Ukraine.

“Such as the Sudetenland did not arrive in 1938, Putin will not stop. If Ukraine falls, he it won’t stay there“, Merz said, referring to Vladimir Putin. “This is a war of Russian aggression against Ukraine — and against Europe.”

Merz was referring to the Munich Agreementestablished in 1938 between the United Kingdom. Germany and Italy, within which Neville Chamberlainthen British Prime Minister, the annexation by the Nazis of the Sudetenland mountain region, which then belonged to Czechoslovakia.

The treaty, which Chamberlain then presented as the “peace for our time“, is known in the Czech Republic as “the Munich Sentence”, or, with some frequency, “the Munich Betrayal“, since the military alliances in force between Czechoslovakia, the United Kingdom and France were ignored.

Very critical of the agreement, Winston Churchillthen in opposition, told Chamberlain: “Between dishonor and war, you chose dishonor, and you will have war“.

On March 10, 1939, Hitler, disrespecting the treaty, ordered the invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia and the German troops occupy Prague. On September 1st, Nazi troops invaded Poland, and began to World War II.

According to the German Chancellor, Vladimir Putin’s objective also involves “a fundamental change of borders in Europe and the restoration of the former Soviet Union within its borders.”

Merz, alongside the French President Emmanuel Macron and the British Prime Minister Keir Starmerhas boosted the European efforts to support Kyiv.

According to , German, British and French officials were allegedly discussing this weekend proposals to end the war in Ukraine, ahead of a meeting scheduled for this Monday.

It is also expected that the North American envoy Steve Witkoff meet with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyywhich will be received by Merz in Berlin.