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Lying in an old silver serving dish from the Kurhotel Petersberg near Bonn Germany, now residing in East London South Africa. The hotel this comes from on the other side of the Rhine was the hotel Chamberlain stayed in on September 22/23, 1938 when he met Hitler during the Sudetencrisis. On the 30. September he made the famous "Peace for our time speech" (" I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts, And now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds") from Downing Street. The next day the Sudetenland was occupied. A bit of history at the other end of the world.

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