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Nonfiction.
HTML:??Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.???New York Times Book Review
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler??s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America??s first ambassador to Hitler??s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the ??New Germany,? she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance??and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler??s true character and ruthless ambition.
Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Göring and the expectedly charming??yet wholly sinister??Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and E… (plus d'informations)
BookshelfMonstrosity: The published version of Klemperer’s secret wartime diary are a vivid and personal account of day-to-day life in Nazi Germany. Writing with sophistication and insight, he records the stories of ordinary Germans and their hopes and fears during the dark days of the war. This provides interesting points of comparison with Dodd's experiences.… (plus d'informations)
BookshelfMonstrosity: If you found In the Garden of Beasts moving and want to read fiction about the Third Reich, try Every Man Dies Alone, a haunting novel based on actual events surrounding a couple that attempted to undermine the Nazi regime.
spacecommuter: Erik Larsen's In the Garden of Beasts draws on The Haunted Wood and the notebooks of Alexader Vassiliev as sources. The Haunted Wood mentions Martha Dodd, her romance with Boris Winogradov and her father extensively, and includes additional evidence of Martha's espionage that Larsen mostly omitted from his book.… (plus d'informations)
Bien, bien mais... Comment (pourquoi?) qualifier cet ouvrage documenté de roman? Très intéressant sur la période d'installation (de soumission) du nazisme; sur l'ambiance et les a priori de l'époque. Le personnage (?) de Dodd en ressort somme toute grandi, car même s'il a eu peu de pouvoir, il avait une morale. Mais la forme interroge. ( )
Ce livre retrace le séjour en Allemagne de William E. Dodd, professeur d'histoire à l'université, lorsqu'il est nommé contre toute attente ambassadeur des USA à Berlin en 1933. L'histoire est fascinante car l'homme ne paraît pas du tout fait pour cette activité, découvre avec naïveté le régime nazi et sa fille qui est venue avec lui à Berlin fréquente et séduit aussi bien des responsables nazi qu'un attaché d'ambassade russe. Il ne s'agit pas d'un roman, l'auteur s'est appuyé sur de nombreux documents, lettres etc des différents protagonistes. Des questions restent ouvertes, en particulier la personnalité de la jeune femme est intrigante. Jusqu'où est-elle allée dans la collaboration avec le régime soviétique, cela n'est pas très claire et on aimerait connaître de façon plus intérieure cette personnalité peu commune. ( )
William E. Dodd was an academic historian, living a quiet life in Chicago, when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him United States ambassador to Germany. It was 1933, Hitler had recently been appointed chancellor, the world was about to change.
Had Dodd gone to Berlin by himself, his reports of events, his diary entries, his quarrels with the State Department, his conversations with Roosevelt would be source material for specialists. But the general reader is in luck on two counts: First, Dodd took his family to Berlin, including his young, beautiful and sexually adventurous daughter, Martha; second, the book that recounts this story, “In the Garden of Beasts,” is by Erik Larson, the author of “The Devil in the White City.” Larson has meticulously researched the Dodds’ intimate witness to Hitler’s ascendancy and created an edifying narrative of this historical byway that has all the pleasures of a political thriller: innocents abroad, the gathering storm. . . .
Au milieu du chemin de notre vie Je me retrouvais dans une forêt obscure Car la voie droite était perdue.
Dante Alighieri, La divine Comédie, L'Enfer, chant I
(Traduit de l'italien par Jacqueline Risset, Paris, Flammarion, 1992)
Dédicace
A mes filles, et aux vingt-cinq ans à venir... (et à la mémoire de Molly, une brave chienne)
Premiers mots
Das Vorspiel
Prélude ; ouverture ; prologue ; épreuve élimininatoire ; préliminaires ; examen pratique ; audition ; das ist erst das Vorspiel : c'est juste pour commencer. Collins Germany Unabridged Dictionary (7th Edition, 2007)
Un jour, à l'aube d'une époque très sombre, un père et sa fille se trouvèrent brusquement transportés de leur petite vie confortable à Chicago jusqu'au coeur de Berlin sous Hitler. [...]
1933
L'homme derrière le rideau
Il était courant, pour les expatriés américains, de se rendre à leur consulat à Berlin, mais l'homme qui s'y présenta le jeudi 29 juin 1933 n'était pas dans un état normal. [...]
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"Hardly anyone thought that the threats against the Jews were meant seriously," wrote Carl Zuckmayer, a Jewish writer.
Even the language used by Hitler and party officials was weirdly inverted. The term "fanatical" became a positive trait. Suddenly it connoted what philologist Victor Klemperer, a Jewish resident of Berlin, described as a "happy mix of courage and fervent devotion."
"There has been nothing in social history more implacable, more heartless and more devastating than the present policy in Germany against the Jews..."
An odd kind of fanciful thinking seemed to have bedazzled Germany, to the highest levels of government. Earlier in the year, for example, Goring had claimed with utter sobriety that three hundred German Americans had been murdered in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia at the start of the past world war. Messersmith, in a dispatch, observed that even smart, well-traveled Germans will "sit and calmly tell you the most extraordinary fairy tales."
After experiencing life in Nazi Germany, Thomas Wolfe wrote, "Here was an entire nation ... infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a kind of creeping paralysis which twisted and blighted all human relations."
It was a strange moment. Here was Dodd, the humble Jeffersonian schooled to view statesmen as rational creatures, seated before the leader of one of Europe's great nations as that leader grew nearly hysterical with fury and threatened to destroy a portion of his own population. It was extraordinary, utterly alien to his experience.
...the strange indifference to atrocity that had settled over the nation, the willingness of the populace and of the moderate elements in the government to accept each new oppressive decree, each new act of violence, without protest. It was as if he had entered the dark forest of a fairy tale where all the rules of right and wrong were upended.
History.
Nonfiction.
HTML:??Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.???New York Times Book Review
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler??s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America??s first ambassador to Hitler??s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the ??New Germany,? she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance??and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler??s true character and ruthless ambition.
Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Göring and the expectedly charming??yet wholly sinister??Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and E
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