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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 Dodd**, [2] daughter of William Dodd, who served as the United States ambassador to Germany between 1933 and 1937. William E. Dodd, Jr., educator; son of William Dodd and brother of Martha Dodd [2] Laurence Duggan, [2] head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State during World War II. Eufrosina Dvoichenko ...
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.
On June 13, 1933, Fish-Harnack met Martha Dodd when she and other members of the American Women's Club met at the Lehrter train station to welcome Dodd's father and American ambassador, William. [44] Dodd became Fish-Harnack's friend in Berlin, [45] [46] and her manuscript, In Memory, found in her Prague apartment attic in 1957, stated:
Dodd was the son of William E. Dodd, who served as United States Ambassador to Germany between 1933 and 1938, and the brother of Martha Dodd, who had affairs with Nazis and a Soviet NKVD agent before becoming an accused secret agent of the Soviet Union.
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.
The surname Dodd may also be derived from the Old English word "dydrian", in East England which means deceiver or rascal, or from the word "dod", which means to make bare or to cut off. The application of the name Dodd is obvious in the former case, while the nickname would denote a bald person in the latter case. [ 1 ]
His paternal English or Scottish ancestors had lived in America since the 1740s when Daniel Dodd settled among the Highland Scots in the Cape Fear Valley. The family included four younger brothers: Rev. Walter Henley Dodd (1872–1950), Alonzo Lewis Dodd (1875–1952), John Ivan Dodd (1876–1971), and Eff David Dodd (1884–1966).