THE FACTS ABOUT THE NSDAP AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH. 1/16: Coffee With Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis Hardcover – September 6, 2022 by Charles Spicer (Author)
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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.
1930 BUNDESTAG BERLIN
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| 0:46.0 | December 1934. Berlin at the Reichs-Chancellor. Invited to dinner is our protagonist, Ernest Tenet. |
| 0:51.0 | He is to sit with the dictator Adolf Hitler and a man by the name of |
| 0:56.8 | Ribbentrop, Jockem Ribbentrop, who will eventually be the ambassador of Germany to England and Great Britain, |
| 1:06.3 | and then he will be the foreign minister of Hitler who will launch a predatory war that here in the 21st century still scars civilization. |
| 1:16.7 | I attend this dinner thanks to a new book, Coffee with Hitler by Charles Spieser, the untold story of the amateur spies who tried to |
| 1:25.8 | civilize the Nazis. One of those informants amateur spies is Ernest Tenant, a man of |
| 1:32.3 | the city, a well thought of gentleman in London. |
| 1:36.0 | Charles, congratulations, your book is wonderfully written, it is transporting, and you take me right into this |
| 1:42.4 | dinner and the redesigned Reich Chancellor. |
| 1:45.0 | And the dinner is meant to begin a conversation between these two countries, |
| 1:51.0 | Great Britain and Germany, who are eyeing each other as possible adversaries, but |
| 1:56.2 | are both still weighed down by the damage of the first war. |
| 2:00.7 | What do we need to know about Ernest Tenet, him attending this dinner that night? |
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