In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson follows America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany, college history professor William E Dodd. The Dodd family, including 24 year old daughter Martha, arrived in Berlin just months after Hitler had been made Chancellor. Berlin was a city full of color and energy but with ominous signs of the coming atrocities.
In the Garden of Beasts also includes such individuals as:
Rudolf Diels, first Chief of the Gestapo
Ernst Putzi Hanfstaengl, German official and Harvard graduate
Hermann Goring, founder of the Gestapo
George Messersmith, American Consul General
Franz von Papen, German Vice Chancellor. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 2011/01/01 | Erik Larson | Author | In the Garden of Beasts - published | ||||
| 2011/01/01 | Crown Publishing Group | Publisher | In the Garden of Beasts - published |
| Particulars for In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin: | |||
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| Narrative Arts | Biography | ||
| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Narrative Arts | Factual | concerned with what is actually true rather than interpretations of or reactions to it | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Cultural Affiliation | Nazi, Third Reich | Adolf Hitler's failed regime | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Narrative Arts | Verfabula | long form true story, written as a compelling narrative that reads like good fiction | |
| Culture | Weimar Republic Culture | the society, arts and sciences that in Germany between 1918 and 1933 Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918 and Hitler's rise to power in 1933 | |
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| Original Language: | English | ||