THE INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, DECEMBER 1936 - JANUARY 1937
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A woodcutter chops small logs into smaller pieces as three small children look on. A fourth child can be seen in the foreground. This wide Madrid street is very busy, with many people walking in the background.
Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness. Yet at the time, it was a popular and seemingly pragmatic policy.