
President Franklin D. Roosevelt probably didn't realize that when he sent mild-mannered history professor, William E. Dodd, to Germany in 1933, as ambassador and charged him with maintaining stability and protecting U. S. investments, he was also sending Dodd's exact opposite-- his high-spirited daughter Martha. While William assessed and reported on the situation in pre-war Germany, growing more and more alarmed at Hitler's blatant aggression, Martha fell in love, literally and figuratively, with Nazi Germany. Although the 22 year old left an estranged husband in New York, she embarked
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