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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.
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 ...
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. [2]
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.
William Edward Dodd (October 21, 1869 – February 9, 1940) [2] was an American historian, author and diplomat.A liberal Democrat, he served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937 during the Nazi era.
The League of American Writers was a so-called "mass organization" initiated by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in 1935 and terminated in January 1943. A small and elite organization, the League included professional novelists, playwrights, poets, journalists, and literary critics.