In what used to be called the Führerbau, the monumental white stone building in the centre of Munich, twin red marble staircases rise to a galleried first floor. A heavy door leads to the Führer’s study. At the far end of the large, gloomy, wood-panelled room is the original brick fireplace in front of which Hitler and Mussolini sat with Neville Chamberlain and the French premier, Edouard Daladier, on September 29, 1938, to settle the fate of Czechoslovakia.
Two miles across the city Hitler’s second-floor apartment in the smart residential square of Prinzregentenplatz has the same parquet floor, doors, fixtures and bookshelves as it had in the 1930s. One can sit in the corner where Chamberlain produced his notorious piece of paper for Hitler to