Memory of 1938 hangs heavy in Munich as Ukrainian president calls for action

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Just 20 minutes walk from the ornate Hotel Bayerischer Hof, where world leaders gathered this weekend for the Munich security conference, lies No 12 Arcisstrasse, the shuttered brown ornamental building known as the Fuhrerbau.

On a cold grey Sunday morning, the building, now temporarily closed and in disrepair, has a forbidding air. Near the steps at the front is a small plaque with the bare inscription in German, Czech and Slovak: In this building, on 29 September, 1938, the Munich agreement was signed, which led to the smashing of the Czechoslovak republic."