THE FACTS ABOUT THE NSDAP AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH. 13 /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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| 0:38.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:41.0 | With Charles Spicer, the book is Coffee with Hitler, the Untold Story of the Amateur Spies, |
| 0:47.0 | who tried to civilize the Nazis, again our heroes, Graham Christie, the World War I Flying Ace, a magnificent hero who provides really good information, |
| 0:59.2 | perhaps because the German Lufthwaffe and Hermann Guring recognize a fellow night of the air but in any |
| 1:06.1 | event there is also Conwell Evans whose information based on his connection to the |
| 1:11.5 | fellowship is also very good and also his long-standing |
| 1:15.1 | relationship with Van Ribbentrop, now the foreign minister of a country at war with the |
| 1:21.2 | rest of Europe. And then there is Ernest Tenet who is quite bravely |
| 1:26.0 | gone behind German lines or going into territory where he could have been |
| 1:30.6 | could have been arrested or detained or just disappeared. |
| 1:35.1 | It is now what the so-called Boer War, the American press eventually called it the phony |
| 1:41.1 | war, the Sitzkrieg, they called it at the time, because though Germany |
| 1:44.8 | had overrun Poland very quickly, and its ally Russia, the Soviet Union had overrun the other |
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