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William Edward Dodd
Letter partial envelope America/Germany William Edward Dodd (born October 21, 1869; died February 9, 1940) served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937. On October 12, 1933, Dodd gave a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin, with Joseph Goebbels and Alfred Rosenberg in attendance, and used an elaborate analogy, based on Roman history, to criticize the Nazis as half-educated statesmen who adopted the arbitrary modes of an ancient tyrant. His views grew more critical and pessimistic with the Night of the Long Knives. He was one of the very few in the U.S. and European diplomatic community who reported that the Nazis were too strongly entrenched for any opp...
Democrat and Diplomat
Robert Dallek, a luminary in the field of political biography--author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nixon and Kissinger and the New York Times bestselling biography of John F. Kennedy--offers here a look at the life of William Dodd, an American diplomat stationed in Nazi Germany. An insightful historical account, Democrat and Diplomat exposes the dark underbelly of 1930s Germany and explores the terrible burden of those who realized the horror that was to come. Dodd was the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937, arriving in Berlin with his wife and daughter just as Hitler assumed the chancellorship. An unlikely candidate for the job--and not President Roosevelt's first choice--Dodd q...
Ambassador Dodd's Diary, 1933-1938
Author was Ambassador to Germany.
William Edward Dodd
A biography of a Southern scholar who rose from an impoverished background to become a political activist, an American ambassador in Hitler's Germany, and a Southern historian. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
