My Years In Germany: Daughter Of The Ex-U.S. Ambassador In Berlin (1939) By Martha Dodd
 
This is a memoir about the experiences of Martha Dodd (1908-1990) in Nazi Germany. Miss Dodd was the daughter of William Edward Dodd, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937, just before the Second World War. Miss Dodd writes that the president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had no takers for the post of US Ambassador to Germany, and so he chose Mr. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic, who had studied in Germany, was fluent in German language and literature and was retiring from his post at the University of Chicago. Dodd thought that going to the land he loved would be the perfect backdrop to his finally completing that multi-volume history he'd been putting off for years!

Miss Dodd went to Berlin with her father, mother and brother in 1933, and stayed there until her father resigned his post in 1937, partly for health reasons, partly because of increased conflict with the State Department, and partly because of his increasing unease with the Nazi regime.

Her story is an amazing insight into the world of the Third Reich. Moving to Berlin in her 20s when her father was named U.S. ambassador to Germany before World War II, Martha Dodd Stern initially got swept up in Nazi fervor, “the new regime working like wine in me,” as she later wrote.
 
She became romantically involved with Nazi secret police chief Rudolf Diels and met Adolf Hitler but quickly became disenchanted with their cause.
 
She fell in love with a Soviet press attaché and was recruited by Soviet intelligence. But that is a different story.
 
This is a very rare book
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
319 pages
In Fair to Good Condition