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Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (BA, MA) University of Leipzig (PhD) Occupation. Historian. Diplomat [1] William Edward Dodd (October 21, 1869 – February 9, 1940) [2] was an American historian, author and diplomat. A liberal Democrat, he served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937 during the Nazi era.
Martha Eccles Dodd (October 8, 1908 – August 10, 1990) was an American journalist and novelist. The daughter of William Edward Dodd, [5] US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 's first Ambassador to Germany, Dodd lived in Berlin from 1933–1937 [6] and was a witness to the rise of the Third Reich. She became involved in left-wing politics ...
Alanson B. Houghton, Ambassador April 22, 1922 February 21, 1925 Jacob Gould Schurman, Ambassador June 29, 1925 January 21, 1930 Frederic M. Sackett, Ambassador February 12, 1930 March 24, 1933 William E. Dodd, Ambassador August 30, 1933 December 29, 1937 Hugh R. Wilson, Ambassador March 3, 1938 November 16, 1938
Dodd was the son of William E. Dodd, who served as United States Ambassador to Germany between 1933 and 1938, and the brother of Martha Dodd, who had affairs with Nazis and a Soviet NKVD agent before becoming an accused secret agent of the Soviet Union. [2]
ISBN. 0307408841. LC Class. E748.D6 L37 2011. Erik Larson talks about In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler's Berlin on Bookbits radio. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin is a 2011 non-fiction book by Erik Larson. [1]
He served as Ambassador to Germany from March 3 to November 16, 1938. He attended the congress of the Nazi Party in Nuremberg in September 1938 and broke with the precedent established by his predecessor, William E. Dodd, who had refused to attend. In Dodd's absence, the embassy's chargé d'affaires had attended the previous year. [9]
William Dodd may refer to: William Dodd (ambassador) (1869–1940), U.S. ambassador to Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1937. William E. Dodd Jr. (1905–1952), U.S. leftist politician, New Dealer, and possible Soviet sympathizer. William Dodd (priest) (1729–1777), English clergyman who was hanged for fraud in 1777.
For instance, a bandleader [who?] who wrote a jazz version of the song was forced to leave Germany, and when Martha Dodd, the daughter of William E. Dodd, at the time the US ambassador to Germany, played a recording of an unusual arrangement of the song at her birthday party at the Ambassador's residence in 1933, a young Nazi who was a liaison ...