Synopsis
As he presided over the rebuilding of a Germany shattered and humiliated after WWI, opinion as to Hitler and his intentions was divided and the question of whether his ultimate aim was military aggression by no means certain. Sir Nevile Henderson, the British ambassador in Berlin in 1939 describes here, in his report to Parliament, the failure of his mission and the outbreak of war. He tells of his attempts to deal with both Hitler and von Ribbentrop to maintain peace and gives an account of the changes in German foreign policy regarding Poland.