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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
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.
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]
The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. With 1945 being the last year of World War II , the many films released this year had themes of patriotism, sacrifices, and peace. [ 1 ] In the United States, there were more than eighteen thousand movie theatres operating in 1945, a figure that grew by a third from a decade earlier.
Here Is Germany is a 1945 American propaganda documentary film directed by Frank Capra and written by William L. Shirer, Gottfried Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch, Georg Ziomer and Anthony Veiller. Like its companion film, Know Your Enemy: Japan , the film is a full-length exploration of why one of the three major Axis countries started World War II ...
This disposition of the Jewish population harkened back to a mindset communicated in earlier years to Roosevelt by the American ambassador to Germany, William Dodd (1933–37). Dodd had appraised Germany's repression of Jews, and writing to Roosevelt, he said: "The Jews had held a great many more of the key positions in Germany than their ...
While not as highly regarded as films of the preceding Weimar Republic era, [citation needed] the films of Nazi Germany, mainly made under control of Joseph Goebbels, hold a fascination for many, [citation needed] both as historical documents of one of the most important periods of 20th century history, as well as for their own artistic merit.