THE FACTS ABOUT THE NSDAP AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH. 2 /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.
1933 HERMAN GORING THE AT NSDAP HQ MUNICH
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| 0:47.7 | the earnestness of London and men in London and Berlin who are seeking to avoid the conflict that we know because we look |
| 0:56.6 | backwards is coming in 1939, the dictator and the Nazi war machine. |
| 1:04.0 | However, in 1935, the idea is to combine the ambitions of London and Berlin into the Anglo-German Fellowship. |
| 1:13.1 | The initial headquarters, I'm following Charles Spiesh's reporting, is that the Metropol |
| 1:18.3 | Hotel in London, that's where the headquarters are, and it immediately attracts lots of business interests in the city. |
| 1:26.2 | Major industrialists, publishers, newspaper publishers, |
| 1:31.0 | who were barons of the public opinion at this time. It's extremely, people join |
| 1:37.1 | eagerly, it's almost they're tumbling over themselves. So is this a general feeling |
| 1:42.4 | that if we have a way of talking to Berlin, we can and somehow |
| 1:47.1 | deal with these horrible headlines and brutality that we're reading towards the Jews? |
| 1:52.1 | Yes, I think that the first people to get anxious about the |
| 1:56.3 | relationship between Britain and Germany are the worlds of business and finance. So Unilever, which the companies, you know, still exists, major international |
| 2:05.5 | company which have been created from a merger in the late 20s between the Dutch |
| 2:09.4 | Margarine Union and Lever Brothers. That becomes one of the main financiers and in fact later on the fellowship holds its annual general meetings and its board meetings in Unilever's splendid Art Deco Palace on the Thames in central London. To give context they have 30,000 employees in Germany, 100 subsidiaries and doing they're selling about a in modern terms about a billion |
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