poland or do anything else. was chamberlain right to be trusting? he was wrong to base his judgment of adolph hitler on a face-to-face encounter. the paradox of chamberlain and hitler is the people who got hitler right were the ones that never met him. the people that got him wrong were the ones that did spend time with him. i m very interested in how we could be led astray by face-to-face encounters. that s a perfect story for my purposes, that chamberlain should have stayed home and read mein kampf. there was evidence about hitler s intentions and the problem with going to visit him is not that you can t gather information from a face to face encounter, but when you meet a mesmerizing and charismatic man, as hitler, face to face, you run the risk of over evaluing whatever information you get