PREVIEW: From conversation with Charles Spicer, autor of COFFEE WITH HITLER, about how Ambassador (and later Foreign Minister)Joachim von Ribbentrop, having mainained to Hitler that he could charm the British to accept German ascendancy in Europe, turned

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

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PREVIEW: From conversation with Charles Spicer, autor of COFFEE WITH HITLER, about how Ambassador (and later Foreign Minister)Joachim von Ribbentrop, having mainained to Hitler that he could charm the British to accept German ascendancy in Europe, turned against London and became a loud voice for war.

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

1939 Ribbentrop arrives in Moscow

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0:00.0	Everyone is talking about the new Mean Girls movie.
0:03.0	Get in, loser.
0:04.0	It's a new twist from Tina Fay.
0:06.0	Lord is the Queen Bee.
0:07.0	Regina George.
0:08.0	Don't look her in the eye.
0:09.0	Mean Girls is exclusively in cinemas January 17th.
0:12.0	You can be really hot.
0:13.0	You change like everything.
0:15.0	Don't miss the meanest event on the big screen.
0:19.0	Come here, I want to fix your eyebrows.
0:20.0	Can I still have two?
0:22.0	Oh, hell no.
0:24.0	Mean Girls is exclusively in cinema's January 17th.
0:27.0	Book tickets now.
0:29.0	Certificate 12A.
0:30.0	This is John Bachelor, continuing my conversation with the author Charles Spicer, his book
0:35.6	Coffee with Hitler, the untold story of the amateur spies who tried to civilize the Nazis. Joachum Fun Ribbentrop was the ambassador to Great Britain for Hitler during the latter part of the 30s.
0:52.0	Fun Ribbentrop had extremely prominent position
0:56.7	early in the rise of national socialism and he continued to represent himself as the best person to liaise, to negotiate, to
1:08.2	bring under the wing the British Empire, London, the English gentleman whom he admired.
1:16.3	He imitated English gentleman.
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