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In the garden of beasts :

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In the garden of beasts :

[Book]

[love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin] /

Erik Larson

1st ed

New York :

Crown,

c2011

xiv, 448 p. :

ill., map ;

25 cm

Map on end papers

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-434) and index

Das Vorspiel -- The man behind the curtain -- Into the wood -- House hunting in the Third Reich -- Lucifer in the garden -- How the skeleton arches -- Disquiet -- Berlin at dusk -- When everything changed -- The queer bird in exile -- "Table talk"

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The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the "New Germany," she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance-and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler's true character and ruthless ambition. --

014-100

9 & up

9.7

Adolescent/Adult

Dodd, William E., (William Edward),1869-1940

Diplomats-- United States, Biography

Historians-- United States, Biography

National socialism-- Germany

Germany, Social conditions, 1933-1945

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Larson, Erik

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