People love to speculate if the world would have been better if a particularly loathsome, murderous historical figure had never been born or died before their infliction of terror.
Is it clear who told the story first? I could imagine that Hitler would've told Chamberlain first (making it up for all the reasons you've described). And when the story inevitably made its way back to England, Tandy leaned into it, like your favorite old relative you know is just there for the story. What seems more insane is Tandy spending the '30s in England going out of his way to tell people: "That Hitler chap? Yeah I met him once, reckon I could've killed him when I'd had the chance!" Either way, thank you for sharing this!
Is it clear who told the story first? I could imagine that Hitler would've told Chamberlain first (making it up for all the reasons you've described). And when the story inevitably made its way back to England, Tandy leaned into it, like your favorite old relative you know is just there for the story. What seems more insane is Tandy spending the '30s in England going out of his way to tell people: "That Hitler chap? Yeah I met him once, reckon I could've killed him when I'd had the chance!" Either way, thank you for sharing this!