THE FACTS ABOUT THE NSDAP AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH. 15 /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.
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| 0:36.1 | Charles Spicer, the author of Coffee with Hitler, the untold story of the |
| 0:40.3 | amateur spies who tried to civilize the Nazis. The war spills out across Europe, across Asia, |
| 0:46.6 | around the world, the catastrophe, the deaths of tens of millions of people, the brutality and the sadism, but the war has ended and the Nuremberg |
| 0:55.4 | trials begin. |
| 0:58.0 | The Van Ribbentrop is captured, Gering is captured and Hess is in custody has been |
| 1:06.4 | since he since July of 1940. |
| 1:09.4 | Himmler commits suicide Hitler of course committed, but the trial at Nuremberg is a first |
| 1:17.3 | draft telling of who was responsible and how guilty. |
| 1:21.9 | And Charles spends time with it and we will too because there are revelations at the |
| 1:27.0 | trial that are important to understand the historical record as presented afterwards. |
| 1:33.0 | This is the three men who are especially in the witness box together, |
| 1:38.7 | Ribbentrop, Guring, and Hess. |
| 1:41.5 | Charles writes, they're all had good World War I records, but have all participated |
| 1:46.4 | in some fashion in the brutality. They will all be convicted. There is not a doubt of their |
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