Cycle 14 · 4 Feb 2026The return of fascism- 33:51At Munich, he grants Hitler almost everything and declares "Mr. Hitler is a gentleman," before the German-Soviet pact.
Chamberlain
Appears in 14 videos · 14 passages, 6 of them in depth.
Summary
Dominique Pagani almost always refers to Neville Chamberlain through the same scene: the return from Munich, where the British Prime Minister declares "Mr. Hitler is a gentleman"12. He makes him the symbol of the "Munich men", whom he describes as anti-communists and anti-Soviets34. In his view, Chamberlain presents himself as the saviour of peace while preferring Hitler to the Popular Front, regarding the USSR as the real enemy and counting on a German push eastward56. He draws on this episode to put the German-Soviet pact in perspective: Munich weighs more heavily, and the pact is a response to those agreements, in which Chamberlain conceded almost everything to Hitler789. From 2019 to 2026, he comes back to this reminder in varied contexts: Clouscard, war, the Sahel, the return of fascism. In 2023, he connects it with the Munich conference then in the news10. In an earlier passage, he names Chamberlain among the racists at the origin of Hitler11.
- 1#12 Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner28 Jan 2021 · 1:23:21
- 2#10.6 War and peace: “The death drives advance in silence…” (Freud)8 Dec 2021 · 1:18:39
- 3Sahelian Africa and imperialism: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger23 Mar 2024 · 1:15:52
- 4Too late?14 Aug 2024 · 1:31:15
- 5Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: Clouscard, as relevant as ever2 May 2024 · 10:13
- 6After the vote: entering a zone of turbulence11 Jul 2024 · 38:06
- 7A balance in nature?31 Mar 2021 · 12:22
- 8#8 Philosophising under threat27 Jan 2022 · 1:07:54
- 9The return of fascism4 Feb 2026 · 33:51
- 10Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war17 Feb 2023 · 5:22
- 11Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (1)17 Jun 2017 · 1:00:18
Summary produced automatically from 14 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?Arthur Neville Chamberlain (; 18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940. He is known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. […]
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Cycle 14 · 4 Feb 2026The return of fascism
Cycle 12 · 11 Jul 2024After the vote: entering a zone of turbulence- 38:06Back from Munich, he judges Hitler a "gentleman" and counts on his push eastward against the USSR.
Cycle 12 · 2 May 2024Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: Clouscard, as relevant as ever- 10:13Returns from Munich claiming to have saved peace: better Hitler than the Popular Front, the enemy being the USSR.
Cycle 10 · 27 Jan 2022#8 Philosophising under threat- 1:07:54Returning from Munich, he calls Hitler a gentleman. The German-Soviet pact answers those agreements.
Cycle 10 · 8 Dec 2021#10.6 War and peace: “The death drives advance in silence…” (Freud)- 1:18:39Head of the Western delegation at Munich, he declares on his return, "Mr. Hitler is a gentleman."
Series · 31 Mar 2021A balance in nature?- 12:22English Prime Minister who declared on returning from Munich that Hitler is a gentleman; Munich weighs more than the German-Soviet pact.
Cycle 13 · 2 Sept 2024Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle- 42:44Returns from Munich as the savior of peace, declaring that Hitler is a gentleman.
Cycle 12 · 14 Aug 2024Too late?- 1:31:15"Mr. Hitler is a gentleman": the Munich men were anti-Soviets.
Talks · 23 Mar 2024Sahelian Africa and imperialism: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger- 1:15:52Munich anti-communist: "Mister Hitler is a gentleman."
Cycle 11 · 17 Feb 2023Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war- 5:22Recalls the Munich Agreement; a parallel with today's Munich conference.
Series · 31 Mar 2021“Red-browns”, “decolonial”: should we use the dominant language?- 51:04On returning from Munich, he declares that Hitler is a gentleman.
Series · 28 Jan 2021#12 Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner- 1:23:21"Mr. Hitler, he's a gentleman," upon returning from Munich.
Series · 23 Aug 2019M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (1987)- 1:40:28Comes back from Munich saying that Hitler is a gentleman.
Talks · 17 Jun 2017Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (1)- 1:00:18Cited among the racists at the origin of Hitler.