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E. K. slash Special Offer. This is John Bachelor. This excerpt from a four-hour conversation I had with the author Charles Spicer, his new book,

Coffee with Hitler. The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies who tried to civilize the Nazis.

This particular passage is about the Auster conspiracy, 1938, an attempt by opponents of Hitler and the National Socialist who overwhelm their apparatus in Berlin

using the police elements and other security elements.

1938, the Kuziz Belli, as Charles teaches us,

was the attack on Czechoslovakia that was imminent.

However, the Esther conspiracy needed Hitler to attack.

That would have brought forth those who saw this was madness.

This was putting Germany into a place where there was tragedy ahead.

They needed Czechoslovaki to be attacked, not for there to be appeasement.

And Charles explains how close it came and then Chamberlain. Here's Charles

Spicer, coffee with Hitler, the untold story of the amateur spies who tried to

civilize the Nazis. And again, just like 1936, a missed opportunity

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