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MORE REMINDER THAT THE ACTUAL CORRUPTION OF THE GERMAN REPUBLIC, 1933-1939, WAS NOTHING ANALOGOUS TO THE TURBULENCE IN THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, 2016-2025: 15/16: 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

⏱️ 13 minutes

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MORE REMINDER THAT THE ACTUAL CORRUPTION OF THE GERMAN REPUBLIC, 1933-1939, WAS NOTHING ANALOGOUS TO THE TURBULENCE IN THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, 2016-2025:  15/16:  Coffee With Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis 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.
1938 BERLIN

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I'm John Batchel with Charles Spicer, the author of Coffee with Hitler, the untold story of the amateur spies who tried to civilize the Nazis, the war spills out across Europe, across Asia, around the world, the catastrophe, the deaths of tens of millions of people, the brutality and the sadism, but the war has ended. And the Nuremberg trials begin.

1:29.0

The von Ribbentrop is captured.

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Gering is captured, and Hess is in custody,

1:36.4

has been since July of 1940.

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Himmler commits suicide.

1:41.2

Hitler, of course, committed suicide.

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But the trial at Nuremberg is a first

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draft telling of who was responsible and how guilty. And Charles spends time with it, and we will too,

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