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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 .
Martha, separated from her husband and in the process of divorce, became caught up in the glamor and excitement of Berlin's social scene and had a series of liaisons, most of them sexual, including among them Gestapo head Rudolf Diels and Soviet attaché and secret agent Boris Vinogradov. She defended the regime to her skeptical friends.
William Dodd Jr. speaks on the radio during debate within the United States on whether to enter World War II. International News Service photo. William Edward Dodd Jr. (August 8, 1905 – October 18, 1952) was an American political activist who ran unsuccessfully for Congress during the 1930s.
Shortly after returning to the United States and resuming his teaching career, Dodd married Martha Johns at her family's home in nearby Wake County, North Carolina on December 25, 1901. They had two children, a daughter, Martha (1908–1990), and a son, William E. Dodd Jr. (1905–1952) [11] [9]
During this time, he had a romantic relationship with Martha Dodd, the daughter of the US ambassador to Germany. [9] On 27 February 1933 the Reichstag fire occurred and Diels was the main interrogator of the principal accused, Marinus van der Lubbe. [3] He told Hitler he thought that the fire was set by this single man.
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (published by St. Martin's Press in 1998) is the first novel by journalist Jim Fergus. The novel is written as a series of journals chronicling the fictitious adventures of "J. Will Dodd's" ostensibly real ancestor in an imagined "Brides for Indians" program of the United States government.
On June 2, 1929, Mildred moved to Jena in Germany, where she spent her first year [17] living with the Harnack family. [18] In the same year, she received a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service [19] that enabled her to start working on her doctorate in American literature at the University of Jena, [17] but she found the University of Giessen to be most welcome. [17]
Molly Dodd (November 11, 1921 — March 26, 1981) was an American actress. Biography.