THE FACTS ABOUT THE NSDAP AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH. 14 /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.
1938 NSDAP Poster
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| 0:39.2 | information that is critical to understand these tragic years, 1933 to 1945 and then afterwards, |
| 0:48.6 | were still scarred by the decisions made or not made, by the men we're talking about and their adversaries in Berlin and Moscow |
| 0:58.4 | and France, all this, all of Europe and it comes back when Europe's in a war and you see how you're in a fog |
| 1:05.0 | you don't know what the future is. Well that was the case here in May of 1940 |
| 1:09.8 | when the British Expeditionary Force, the Belgian surrendered, the British Expeditionary Force, |
| 1:15.9 | is now in full retreat. The French Army have not provided adequate coverage and the Germans have |
| 1:22.4 | launched a savage and extremely effective attack. |
| 1:26.0 | Sometimes using the tanks they got from the Skoda armaments, definitely using the artillery. |
| 1:31.0 | And they're over running France, Belgium very quickly. The Belgian |
| 1:34.8 | Army surrenders and the British Army, the famous Dunkirk retreat. However at |
| 1:40.0 | this point the Prime Minister changes hands from Chamberlain to not Halifax but to Churchill. |
| 1:51.6 | And we've not talked about work Winston Churchill much at this point |
| 1:54.6 | because this is the rest of the story but I want to take this moment Charles to |
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