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THE FACTS ABOUT THE NSDAP AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH. 5/16: 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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🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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THE FACTS ABOUT THE NSDAP AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH.    5/16: Coffee With Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis Hardcover – September 6, 2022 by  Charles Spicer  (Author)

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.

1937 LABOUR DAY BERLIN

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Visiting with Charles Spieser, whose new book Coffee with Hitler is the

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untold story of the amateur spies who tried to civilize the Nazis. It is the

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untold story of the goodwill of men of both Germany and Great Britain in the period of

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1930s after the dictator took charge of Germany to find a way to avoid a crisis such as we know happened to avoid war

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because they were scarred by the first war. We come now to September of

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1936.

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The Anglo-German Fellowship of London,

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the Deutcha Angliche Giseelshaft of Berlin,

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have been meeting and looking for ways forward to work in terms of business

1:25.6

terms, business relationships, trade, and also friendship and German speakers,

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Ernest Tenet, Philip Conwell Evans, and Graham Christie are

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informing both sides of what can be done to find a way forward and one of the

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best ideas is to have a senior British politician, the

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