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13/16: Coffee With Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis Hardcover – September 6, 2022 by Charles Spicer (Author)

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🗓️ 24 December 2022

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13/16: Coffee With Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis Hardcover – September 6, 2022 by Charles Spicer (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Hitler-Untold-Amateur-Civilize/dp/1639362266

"How might the British have handled Hitler differently?” remains one of history’s greatest "what ifs."

Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding story of how a handful of amateur British intelligence agents wined, dined, and befriended the leading National Socialists between the wars. With support from royalty, aristocracy, politicians, and businessmen, they hoped to use the recently founded Anglo-German Fellowship as a vehicle to civilize and enlighten the Nazis.

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:07.0

Here's John Batchler.

0:10.0

Charles Spicer, the book is coffee with Hitler.

0:13.0

The untold story of the amateur spies who tried to civilize the Nazis.

0:18.0

Again, our heroes, Graham Christie, the World War I flying ace,

0:23.0

magnificent hero who provides really good information,

0:28.0

perhaps because the German, the Luftwaffe,

0:31.0

and Herman Guring recognize a fellow knight of the air,

0:35.0

but in any event, there is also Conwell Evans,

0:39.0

whose information based on his connection to the fellowship is also very good,

0:43.0

and also his long-standing relationship with Fun Ribbon Trap,

0:47.0

now the foreign minister of a country at war with the rest of Europe.

0:53.0

And then there is Ernest Tenet, who is quite bravely gone behind German lines,

0:59.0

or gone into territory where he could have been arrested or detained or dis-disappeared.

1:06.0

It is now the so-called Boer War,

1:10.0

the American press eventually called it the Fony War,

1:13.0

the Sitzkrieg they called it at the time,

1:15.0

because though Germany had overrun Poland very quickly,

1:19.0

and it's ally, Russia, the Soviet Union,

1:23.0

it overrun the other half of Poland,

1:26.0

and we know now that the Germans started their mass murder campaign against the Jews and others,

1:32.0

right away in Poland, and against in the Baltic States,

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