The meeting between Neville Chamberlain, centre left, and Adolph Hitler, centre right, Berchtesgaden, Germany, 16 September 1938. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, 1869 -1940. British statesman of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Adolf Hitler,1889 - 1945. German politician, demagogue, Pan-German revolutionary, leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany, and Fuhrer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. From These Tremendous Years, published 1938.