December 2, 2019

On May 10, 1938, Prime Minister Chamberlain held a news conference at Cliveden House stating that Britain was seeking a pact with Germany and Italy, and favored the breaking up of Czechoslovakia. As a result of this British acquiescence, the German army dropped its resistance to Hitler's war plans.
"When Churchill was questioned in Parliament about British failure to support these efforts, he replied that the government had a deliberate policy of not dealing with German nationalist leaders who were considered to be a greater evil than Hitler." (p.144)
Hanfstaengl became a part of Hitler's inner circle often soothing the Fuhrer with his piano playing. More materially, Hanfstaengl financed the expansion of the Nazi newspaper into a daily. He composed the Nazi marching songs, basing them on Harvard football anthems. He hid Hitler after the failed Beer Hall Putsch and his pretty wife took Hitler in and prevented the distraught Fuhrer from committing suicide. Hanfstaengel was Hitler's Foreign Press Chief from 1933-1937.
James Roberts
Lost me at "Makow".
Dec 5, 2019
Parrhesia
There is no doubt that Baron de Ropp had influential connections in both Britain and Germany and was most likely able to influence people on both sides. Of course, he wasn't the only one.
Dec 6, 2019