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Slack.com slash DHQ. Munich, August 30, 1932. At the palatial hotel Continental, a party

of guests is shown to its table in the Grand Dining Room. Dinner at the Continental is

an elegant affair. Dinner jackets, evening dresses, or cuisine. Beneath the chandeliers

are string quartet plays. The head of the party from a noble family is quite at home in the

surroundings. Though he's not averse to roughing it, he's seen action as an imperial cabaret

man, a war reporter, and later as an infantryman in the trenches of the Western Front. Back home

in Britain, he has since sought a career as a member of Parliament. Though he is somewhat

out in the cold, he likes to busy himself with his pet projects, he paints, he writes,

he's an historian. He's also partial to a brandy in a cigar.

Over the summer, Winston Churchill has been touring the battlefields of Europe, researching

his ancestor, the first Duke of Malbra. In 1704, the English general scored a tremendous

military victory, not far from here, at the battle of Blenheim. As Churchill's party

take their seats, they're joined by another man. He is a tall, chivalrous barbarian, impeccably

manate, who speaks flawless English with an American accent. Ernst Hampstangle, known

to all as Putze. Hampstangle, a member of the Nazi party, has been keen to introduce Churchill

to his boss, his führer, one Adolf Hitler. He feels it most important that the two men

meet. He has a sense that Churchill is not yet a spent force. He has arranged for the

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