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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.
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.
She was born in New York City to Maurice and Harriett Gibson Ehrlich. She had a younger sister, Edith, born in 1905. [1] Although many biographies state that Martha was born in Mansfield, Ohio, her birth record and death certificate both have New York City as her place of birth.
Yet the German version of the article says "Seit 1957 lebten sie in der Tschechoslowakei, wo Dodd 1990 starb", i.e. "since 1957 they lived in Czechoslovakia, where Dodd died in 1990." The Russian article says "В 1957 году супруги эмигрировали в Чехословакию, в Прагу.
Thomas Joseph Dodd (May 15, 1907 – May 24, 1971) was an American attorney and diplomat who served as a United States Senator and Representative from Connecticut.