PREVIEW: BERGHOF: Conversation with author Charles Spicer, "Coffee with Hitler," re the origin of the meeting place called Berghof, built for NSDAP Führer Hitler near Berchtesgaden on the Austrian-German border -- where Hitler invited, before the war, Dav
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 26 October 2024
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1850 Berchtesgaden
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Bachelor, continuing my conversation with the author Charles Spicer, his |
| 0:36.2 | amazing new book, Coffee with Hitler. |
| 0:38.9 | The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies who tried to Civilize the Nazis includes the outreach by British dignitaries |
| 0:47.4 | to Hitler in the years before the war when they were looking to work with him or in some way bring him into the European conversation of getting along, comedy, peace. |
| 1:00.0 | The most important meeting place for all of these conversations was the cabin |
| 1:06.7 | rebuilt into a palace, Berghoff, near Bechtus-Garden on the Austrian German border and Charles Spicer here introduces us to that |
| 1:15.9 | building. Coming to visit Hitler at that building most notably in the |
| 1:20.9 | pre-war years was David Lord George, the former British Prime Minister, who was |
| 1:26.4 | the supervisor of the British victory over Germany in 1918 and then one of the principles the Versailles Treaty, along with President |
| 1:36.2 | Wilson, Prime Minister of Clemensau of France and the punitive Versailles treaty that Hitler and his allies used to stir up the German people in the 1930s. |
| 1:50.0 | Lloyd George was the catch and a major success for the principles of this book, |
| 1:56.0 | all part of the Anglo-German Fellowship, |
| 1:59.0 | that Lord George made the trip, |
| 2:01.0 | talked with Hitler. Of course this is all wasted on the |
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