THE FACTS ABOUT THE NSDAP AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH. 10 /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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🗓️ 28 October 2024
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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.
1934 Berlin
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| 0:28.6 | I.e. I'm John Batsch with Charles Spicer. His new book is Coffee with Hitler. It is the crisis year of 1938. |
| 0:41.0 | And again, we're concentrating on our protagonists and the results around them that they try to |
| 0:47.8 | shape with really good information about what Hitler and his colleagues, Hitler and his co-conspirators, that would be Gering, Himmler, and the rest, but especially |
| 0:58.6 | von Ribbentrop, the now foreign minister of Germany who has turned against England and regards England as the major |
| 1:05.9 | threat to the Hitlerite plans to conquer the world or at least all of Europe. |
| 1:11.2 | We come to September of 38 and the our heroes are meeting with the |
| 1:18.2 | courts and others and learn that there is a credible as as Charles says, robust plan to remove the dictator from the Reichs |
| 1:26.2 | Chancery and set up a government that is not headed to war. |
| 1:31.4 | It is called the Oster conspiracy and I emphasize it here because it doesn't |
| 1:35.7 | end quickly but Charles you believe this was a credible arrangement that was |
| 1:41.5 | not pursued by Whitehall was that was the Prime Minister |
| 1:45.1 | fully informed of this it seems to have influenced his decision in |
| 1:49.1 | September I think he was I mean he was certainly made aware of the plans for the Auster conspiracy and he chose instead to proceed to proceed with with his own plan to go and visit Hitler personally. |
| 2:08.0 | I don't think he necessarily understood the extent to which his own plans would undermine the conspiracy. |
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