In 1933, a young woman named Martha Dodd accompanied her family to Berlin. Her father had been appointed by President ...

FBI files detail the story of ex-Chicagoan Martha Dodd Stern who became a Soviet spy Her father was U.S. ambassador to Germany as Hitler rose to power, and she was romantically involved with the ...

AP Images. Martha Dodd was 24 when she arrived in Berlin in the summer of 1933 with her father, the new American ambassador, her mother, and brother.

In his book In the Garden of the Beasts, Erik Larson explores the struggles of William E. Dodd, America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany; as well as the intrigues and affairs in Berlin ...