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''In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin'' is a 2011 non-fiction book by Erik Larson. ==Summary== Larson recounts the career of the American Ambassador to Germany, William Dodd, particularly the years 1933 to 1937 when he and his family, including his daughter Martha, lived in Berlin. The Ambassador, who earned his Ph.D. in Leipzig 40 years earlier, was initially hopeful that Germany's new Nazi government would grow more moderate, including in its persecution of the Jews.〔Erik Larson, ''In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin'', Crown Publishers, ISBN 0307408841, 43, 66, 79-80〕 Martha, separated from her husband and in the process of divorce, became caught up in the glamor and excitement of Berlin's social scene and had a series of liaisons, possibly sexual, including among them Gestapo head Rudolf Diels and Soviet attaché and secret agent Boris Vinogradov. She defended the regime to her skeptical friends. Within months of their arrival, the family became aware of the evils of Nazi rule. Dodd periodically protested against it. President Roosevelt was pleased with his performance while most State Department officials, suspicious of his lack of background in their area of expertise, as well as his inability to finance embassy activities from his own wealth, found him undiplomatic and idiosyncratic. The title of the work is a loose translation of Tiergarten, a zoo and park in the center of Berlin. The other historical figures who appear in Larson's account include: ;American officials * Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President * George Gordon, Counselor, U.S. Embassy in Berlin * George S. Messersmith, U.S. Consul in Berlin * William Phillips, U.S. Under Secretary of State ;German officials * Hermann Göring * Reinhard Heydrich * Adolf Hitler * Edgar Julius Jung, Papen's speechwriter * Ernst Röhm * Franz von Papen, Vice Chancellor under Hindenburg. * Kurt von Schleicher, former Chancellor ;Journalists * Bella Fromm, German-Jewish diplomatic correspondent for Ullstein Verlag * H. V. Kaltenborn, American radio announcer * Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Berlin bureau chief of the ''Chicago Daily News'' * William Shirer, foreign correspondent of the ''Chicago Daily News'' ;Diplomats * André François-Poncet, French ambassador to Germany ;Other Americans * Mildred Fish-Harnack, friend of Martha Dodd, American academic in Berlin * Stephen Wise, influential American rabbi ;Other Germans * Fritz Haber * Ernst Hanfstaengl, close friend of Adolf Hitler and Martha Dodd * Sigrid Schultz, popular hostess in Berlin * Victor Klemperer, diarist 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「In the Garden of Beasts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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