William Dodd's In The Garden Of Beasts

In the Garden of Beasts, follows love, terror, politics, and gives an inside look at what people lived through and witnessed during Hitler’s reign. When the book first starts, you 're introduced to the Dodds, a small family from Chicago. The book follows William Dodd, the father, and Martha Dodd, his daughter, and their life throughout Hitler’s regime. Beginning in Chicago, FDR was looking for someone to be the American Ambassador in Berlin, but no one was willing to go, except William Dodd. The book spends a minimal amount of time in America and spends the rest of the book in Berlin. Since this book takes place right on the brink of World War Two, it explains a lot of what happens up to it. During the time when Hitler was first gaining power, the Dodd’s were just settling in Berlin, when Hitler started getting more power his intentions became clearer. Dodd had met with him …show more content…
It shows how America was willing to help and was doing their best. For me personally, I received a newer and greater depth of knowledge about Hitler, Nazis, and everything that was going on in Berlin. My view of America has not changed, but my view on Germany has. I just wonder how one man, could convince a whole country that he was doing something good while having an operation completely secret. The whole concept is somewhat captivating, the propaganda he used to manage to practically hypnotize the majority of Germany’s population, that the jews are bad. Which allowed him to do what he wanted and basically execute jews after putting them in camps and sadistically torturing them. I just do not understand how Germany’s citizens were so oblivious, to see behind his facade. Although Nixon did something kind of similar to America being completely oblivious to him bombing Cambodia, not even congress knew, until it got out of