BOOK REVIEW
Erik Larson In The Garden of Beasts
By the summer of 1933 Adolf Hitler was Chancellor, his stormtroopers (SA - the brown shirts) were wildly beating, arresting and sometimes murdering communists, socialists, and Jews. Into this mix, the USA was looking for a new ambassador in Berlin. William E. Dodd was selected. The book follows Dodd's four years in Berlin, living in the same locality as noted Nazis and other ambassadors. Amidst an ever-growing difficult backdrop of violence, intimidation, and the outlawing of sections of the German population, Dodd's concerning telegraphs to the USA are often dismissed. A well told true story.
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