MORE REMINDER THAT THE ACTUAL CORRUPTION OF THE GERMAN REPUBLIC, 1933-1939, WAS NOTHING ANALOGOUS TO THE TURBULENCE IN THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, 2016-2025: 14/16: Coffee With Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis by
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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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.
1937 BERLIN
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| 1:13.0 | His book is filled with information that is critical to understand these tragic years, 1933 to 1945 and then afterwards. We're still scarred by the decisions made or not made |
| 1:22.8 | by the men we're talking about and their adversaries in Berlin and Moscow and France, |
| 1:29.9 | all this, all of Europe, and it comes back when Europe's in a war and you see how you're in a |
| 1:35.3 | fog. You don't know what the future is. Well, that was the case here in May of 1940 when |
| 1:40.9 | the British Expeditionary Force, the Belgian surrendered, the British Expeditionary Force is now in full retreat. |
| 1:48.0 | The French army have not provided adequate coverage, and the Germans have launched a savage and extremely effective attack. |
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