In the Garden of Beasts

In 1933, William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany. He brings his wife, son, and daughter along with him to Berlin. At first, his daughter is charmed by the Nazis' enthusiastic efforts to restore Germany to a position of power in Europe. She has many affairs with party members and even the Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels, who seems like an upstanding man. But as evidence of the Nazis' crimes against Jews piles up, Dodd writes multiple letters to the State Department about how Jewish people are being persecuted and even killed. She watches in horror as Jews are attacked and censored, and learns about new laws being drafted that will make life for Jews more difficult.