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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.
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 Alexander C. Kirk, Chargé d'Affaires May 1939 October 1940 Leland B. Morris, Chargé d'Affaires October 1940 December 11, 1941
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.
The ambassador, who had earned his PhD in Leipzig forty years earlier, and who, at the time of his appointment, was head of the History Department at the University of Chicago, initially hoped that Germany's new Nazi government would grow more moderate, including in its persecution of the Jews. [2]
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]
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 (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
William Dawson, [2] United States Ambassador to Uruguay; Eugene Dennis, politician and labor organizer [2] Samuel Dickstein, politician and judge** [2] Martha Dodd**, [2] daughter of William Dodd, who served as the United States ambassador to Germany between 1933 and 1937. William E. Dodd, Jr., educator; son of William Dodd and brother of ...