THE FACTS ABOUT THE NSDAP AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH. 3 /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 REICHSTAG ELECTION NSDAP (HITLER AT THE TABLE)
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| 0:40.0 | CBS I and the world. I'm John Bachelor. The book is Coffey with Hitler, the Untold Story of the Amateur Spies who tried to civilize the Nazis. Charles Spicer is the author and these |
| 0:45.8 | are revelations of scenes and conduct that I had no knowledge of all these decades of reading about the catastrophe of the Second War. |
| 0:56.1 | We now go to September 1935 at Nuremberg, the annual rally of the Nazi party capped off by a speech by the dictator. |
| 1:07.6 | We introduce Graham Christie, a man who is quite as romantic as Hollywood could imagine. |
| 1:14.4 | Charles Spicer has done us the extreme favor of recovering |
| 1:20.0 | Graham Christie in his modesty and his his whole life. |
| 1:24.0 | He was an aviator, a war hero, and a man who risked his life |
| 1:29.0 | again and again to find a way to avoid the war that was ahead in 39. |
| 1:35.0 | Charles Graham Christie is so overwhelming. |
| 1:40.0 | What is important to know about him and his role in the Anglo-German Fellowship? |
| 1:46.0 | It's very important to understand his First World War track record and he was an engineer he'd been a school in Britain which he'd hated and went straight |
| 1:58.5 | from that from high school to Germany where he studied as an engineer where he excelled. So he is completely fluent in German and a Germanophile. |
| 2:10.5 | He learns to fly. He's one of the first people, you know, one of the first aviators in the world, one of the first people to achieve power to flight. |
| 2:18.0 | He commissions his own plane in 1913 and tours the north of England demonstrating with another pilot, it's a two-seater, this biplane, to people |
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