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This is pretty cool… a couple months back I was re-reading “Thunderball” and noticed a passage where Fleming describes a certain street in Paris as having too many landlords with “names ending in “escu”, “ovitch”, “ski” and “stein”, and those are not always the endings of respectable names.” Brilliant.

James Bond author Ian Fleming urged appeasing Adolf Hitler
By Andy Bloxham

Last Updated: 8:41AM BST 14/06/2008

James Bond author Ian Fleming recommended appeasing Hitler’s Nazis a
year before the start of the Second World War.

Fleming, then a stockbroker, criticised those who thought a more
aggressive approach was needed, whose opinions he described as “the
dangerous counsels of the slaughterhouse brigade”.

He believed a deal could be done with the future tyrant which would
allow Germany to return to its pre-war strength in exchange for a
strict disarmament pact.

Fleming’s comments, which many in Britain shared, were set out in a
letter, which is thought to have been stored unseen for decades.

The letter was published on September 28, 1938, as the nation waited
to hear the outcome of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’ s meeting
with Hitler in Munich.

Fleming argued that if Hitler’s territorial ambitions were limited to
the aims he outlined in February 1920, then Britain should step back
from war.

Three of those aims were: uniting a greater Germany of German
peoples; repealing the Versailles treaty; and obtaining further
territory to allow Germany’s “surplus” population to emigrate.

The author wrote: “There will be no peace, no return of prosperity,
and no happiness in Europe until England and France agree to the
fulfilment of Herr Hitler’s stated programme in exchange for a
binding disarmament pact.”

The day after the letter appeared in The Times, Chamberlain signed
the Munich agreement, effectively allowing Hitler to take over
Czechoslovakia’ s defensive frontier, and then flew back to Britain to
declare: “Peace in our time”.

The creator of 007, the world’s most famous spy, changed his mind
during the war, when he became a Naval Intelligence officer.

His animosity towards the Nazis revealed itself in the links of the
Bond villain’s to Hitler’s regime: Hugo Drax in Moonraker is the
former Nazi officer Graf Hugo von der Drache; his aide is Willy Krebs
(Hans Krebs was Hitler’s army chief of staff); and Ernst Stavro
Blofeld ’spied for the Nazis’.

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