THE FACTS ABOUT THE NSDAP AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH. 9 /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.
1939 NSDAP
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| 0:37.0 | Coffee with subtitle tells a piece of the scale the untold story of the amateur spies who tried |
| 0:56.0 | to civilize the Nazis. It is 1938 our protagonist, Mr. Christie, Mr. Conroy Evans, and Mr. Tenet are moving back and forth between |
| 1:08.0 | Germany and their colleagues in Britain and their control, a man by the name of Robert Van Sittard, |
| 1:15.0 | who was until 1938, the senior public servant |
| 1:20.0 | in the British government, and a lordly title and now he has not moved his |
| 1:26.0 | office he's just been moved aside from the Prime Minister Mr Chamberlain the new |
| 1:30.6 | Prime Minister but Van Sicharti is very much the M of the James Bond world. You can |
| 1:36.4 | think of him that way. And Tenet and Christie and C. E. Conwell Evans act as his agents. |
| 1:45.0 | Charles, wonderful to continue the story. |
| 1:49.0 | First of all, Van Sittart, we need to establish his credentials and how he will lead part of the anti-appeasers in these |
| 1:58.1 | next years. What do we need to know about him? What was his strength in the government? |
| 2:03.2 | Good evening to you. |
| 2:04.3 | Good evening. |
| 2:06.4 | Vantitarts, a fascinating character because he appears and behaves like a politician when in fact he's a civil servant. |
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