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Book Review of In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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This was a very well-written and researched account of the period leading up to and during Hitler's incomprehensible rise to power in Europe. Ambassador Dodd decried the American lack of interest in what was happening in Germany, except with respect to the American concern about repayment of the German debt. His warnings fell on deaf ears, and his most dire predictions came to pass.