Einstein note blasting PM to fetch £20k
A LETTER written by Albert Einstein which slams Neville Chamberlain for appeasing Adolf Hitler is to go on sale.
It is dated October 10, 1938, just 10 days after the British PM signed the Munich Agreement, which effectively ceded Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany.
The German-born physicist accurately predicts the move would embolden Hitler to carry on his European expansion.
He writes to close friend Michele Besso: “You have confidence in the British and even Chamberlain? ‘Oh holy innocence’.
“Hoping that Hitler might let off steam by attacking Russia, he sacrifices Eastern Europe.”
US auctioneer Nate D Sanders expects the letter to fetch around £20,000.