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Hitler: Attack on Russia, War with America… (Part 20)

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Hess and the Duke of Hamilton

House offer son Albrecht works at the German Foreign Office. In September 1940, he instigates contact with a go-between in Lisbon. It all goes quiet, largely because MI6 have intercepted the note. After months of silence, Hess decides to take matters into his own hands. And how? The British are good sports, he understands. But where to start? House offer remembers a positive meeting he had before the war with a Scottish nobleman named Douglas Douglas Hamilton, a Duke, no less. Yes, the Duke of Hamilton will be their man. Just the soda fella to facilitate a meeting with King George and just the man to front up an opposition at Westminster under Winston

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