In 1933, Winston Churchill read a copy of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and concluded what few politicians of the time dared: Negotiation and appeasement only work with rational and moral people. Hitler was clearly irrational in his proposed execution of horrifying atrocities. Furthermore, he was clearly not moral. Hitler was so impassioned and dedicated to his ideology that nothing less than war would stop him. So, as Churchill put it, appeasement of Hitler by the United Kingdom “feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat [the UK] last.”
