Also by Erik Larson Thunderstruck The Devil in the White City Isaac’s Storm Lethal Passage The Naked Consumer 2011 Crown Publishers International Edition Copyright © 2011 by Erik Larson All rights reserved Published by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York www.crownpublishing.com CROWN and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc Photo credits appear on this page Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Larson, Erik In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler’s Berlin / by Erik Larson.—1st ed p cm Dodd, William Edward, 1869–1940 Diplomats—United States—Biography Historians—United States— Biography Germany—Social conditions—1933–1945 National socialism—Germany I Title E748.D6L37 2011 943.086—dc22 2010045402 eISBN: 978-0-307-88795-5 Cover design by Whitney Cookman Cover photograph © The Art Archive/Marc Charmet v3.1 To the girls, and the next twenty-five (and in memory of Molly, a good dog) CONTENTS Cover Map Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Das Vorspiel The Man Behind the Curtain PART I Into the Wood Chapter 1: Means of Escape Chapter 2: That Vacancy in Berlin Chapter 3: The Choice Chapter 4: Dread Chapter 5: First Night PART II House Hunting in the Third Reich Chapter 6: Seduction Chapter 7: Hidden Conflict Chapter 8: Meeting Putzi Chapter 9: Death Is Death Chapter 10: Tiergartenstrasse 27a PART III Lucifer in the Garden Chapter 11: Strange Beings Chapter 12: Brutus Chapter 13: My Dark Secret Chapter 14: The Death of Boris Chapter 15: The “Jewish Problem” Chapter 16: A Secret Request Chapter 17: Lucifer’s Run Chapter 18: Warning from a Friend Chapter 19: Matchmaker PART IV How the Skeleton Aches Chapter 20: The Führer’s Kiss Chapter 21: The Trouble with George Chapter 22: The Witness Wore Jackboots Chapter 23: Boris Dies Again Chapter 24: Getting Out the Vote Chapter 25: The Secret Boris Chapter 26: The Little Press Ball Chapter 27: O Tannenbaum PART V Disquiet Chapter 28: January 1934 Chapter 29: Sniping Chapter 30: Premonition Chapter 31: Night Terrors Chapter 32: Storm Warning Chapter 33: “Memorandum of a Conversation with Hitler” Chapter 34: Diels, Afraid Chapter 35: Confronting the Club Chapter 36: Saving Diels Chapter 37: Watchers Chapter 38: Humbugged PART VI Berlin at Dusk Chapter 39: Dangerous Dining Chapter 40: A Writer’s Retreat Chapter 41: Trouble at the Neighbor’s Chapter 42: Hermann’s Toys Chapter 43: A Pygmy Speaks Chapter 44: The Message in the Bathroom Chapter 45: Mrs Cerruti’s Distress Chapter 46: Friday Night PART VII When Everything Changed Chapter 47: “Shoot, Shoot!” Chapter 48: Guns in the Park Chapter 49: The Dead Chapter 50: Among the Living Chapter 51: Sympathy’s End Chapter 52: Only the Horses Chapter 53: Juliet #2 Chapter 54: A Dream of Love Chapter 55: As Darkness Fell EPILOGUE CODA The Queer Bird in Exile “Table Talk” Sources and Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Photo Credits Brownell, Will, and Richard N Billings So Close to Greatness: A Biography of William C Bullitt New York: Macmillan, 1987 Brysac, Shareen Blair Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra New York: Oxford University Press, 2000 Bullitt, William C For the President: Personal and Secret Edited by Orville H Bullitt New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1972 Bullock, Alan Hitler: A Study in Tyranny 1962 New York: HarperCollins, 1991 (reprint) Burden, Hamilton T The Nuremberg Party Rallies: 1923–39 New York: Frederick A Praeger, 1967 Burke, Bernard V Ambassador Frederic Sackett and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic, 1930–1933 New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994 Casey, Steven “Franklin D Roosevelt, Ernst ‘Putzi’ Hanfstaengl and the ‘S-Project,’ June 1942–June 1944.” Journal of Contemporary History 35, no (2000): 339–59 Cerruti, Elisabetta Ambassador’s Wife New York: Macmillan, 1953 Chapman, Cynthia C “Psychobiographical Study of the Life of Sigrid Schultz.” Ph.D diss., Florida Institute of Technology, 1991 (In Schultz Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society.) 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Granger Collection, New York p3.2: (Library of Congress) p4.1: ullstein bild / The Granger Collection, New York p5.1: Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works p6.1: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz / Art Resource, NY p7.1: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz / Art Resource, NY epl.1: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz / Art Resource, NY sack.1: Erik Larson I walked across the snowy plain of the Tiergarten—a smashed statue here, a newly planted sapling there; the Brandenburger Tor, with its red ag apping against the blue winter sky; and on the horizon, the great ribs of a gutted railway station, like the skeleton of a whale In the morning light it was all as raw and frank as the voice of history which tells you not to fool yourself; this can happen to any city, to anyone, to you —Christopher Isherwood, Down There on a Visit ABOUT THE AUTHOR ERIK LARSON is the author of The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck, Isaac’s Storm, and other works of non ction He has written for a variety of national magazines and is a former sta writer for the Wall Street Journal and Time He lives in Seattle with his wife, three daughters, and an old British sports car named Mrs Peel ... on this page Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Larson, Erik In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler’s Berlin / by Erik Larson. —1st ed p cm Dodd,... practicing medicine in a suburb of Berlin Now he stood naked in one of the curtained examination rooms on the rst oor of the consulate where on more routine days a public-health surgeon would examine... nature Erik Larson Seattle 1933 The Man Behind the Curtain It was common for American expatriates to visit the U.S consulate in Berlin, but not in the condition exhibited by the man who arrived there