THE FACTS ABOUT THE NSDAP AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH. 12 /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.
1936 Berlin
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| 0:26.0 | That's better help help dot com. It is the summer of 1939. |
| 0:35.0 | Earnest Tenet, a very well-to-do man travels to Germany. |
| 0:42.0 | Again, one to Germany. |
| 0:43.1 | Again, one more time, this time I believe with the blessing of his government, where |
| 0:47.8 | heretofore he and Graham Christie and Conwell Evans have been providing information |
| 0:53.6 | events, it orders, and amateurs, and their information, |
| 0:57.2 | while extremely accurate, is regarded condescendingly sometimes, |
| 1:02.4 | I think, when I've read this. |
| 1:04.0 | Charles the Tenet Mission is the strangest episode of a series of strange episodes. |
| 1:10.0 | What was the ambition? What was the thinking why Ernest Tenet agreed to it and what the hopes were for the mission? |
| 1:20.2 | He, Tenet, conceives of this entirely on his own, but he gets in touch with 10 Downing Street to Horace Wilson, who then liaises with Chamberlain, and offers his services to go incognito, plausibly as it were, to visit |
| 1:39.6 | Ribbentrop, his old friend with whom he'd set up the Anglo-German |
| 1:43.3 | fellowship. They'd seen very little each other for about 18 months, but he |
| 1:48.0 | thinks that he may be able to, that he believes that Hitler and Ribbentrop |
| 1:52.2 | was still anxious for friendship with this country |
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