Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
William Dodd was the American Ambassador to Germany appointed by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. This was the year that Hitler consolidated power over Germany. Dodd, a historian by trade, was not your typical American diplomat. He was a man of modest means and could not entertain at the level of most diplomats.
The anti-semetic superiors in the Department of State were not very sympathetic to the prescient observations of Dodd. The Nazis tried to muzzle Dodd and American Freedom of Expression in the United States.
It is amazing that the Germans could be lead down the path of totalitarianism. Fear, humiliation after defeat in WWII as well rising employment all played a role in German acceptance of Nazi terrorism.
Stuart
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