Question

What did Churchill mean when he said that instead of being forced to “snatch” his “victuals from the table,” Hitler had “them served to him course by course”?

Answer 1

He meant that Hitler was being appeased by the Prime Minister of Britain and by France because they allowed Hitler to break the treaty of versailles and take Austria, the sudetenland, czechoslovakia, and eventually, some of Poland

Answer 2

Churcill pronounced those words as part of an speech in the Munich Confederence, also known as Munich Betrayal, that took place in 1938.

After intense negotiations, leaders from France and UK allowed nazi Germany to annex the region called "Sudetenland" in Czechoslovakia, by not sending any troops there. Morover, the French-Czechoslovak alliance was dishonoured.

Hitler had already started his policy of "Living Space", which aimed to gain the territories that the supreme German race deserved, according to his Nazi ideology. He had gained control over territories without opposition, and Sudetenland was just another one. This is why Churchill said that Hitler got “them served to him course by course”.