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Martha Dodd and Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels drinking wine at outdoor cafe. [Between 1933 and 1934] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020635548/>.
Mar 30, 2012 · Soon after arriving in Germany, she had an affair with Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels. Later she fell in love with a young Soviet agent who tried to recruit her to pass secrets to Stalin’s secret police. Trained at the University of Leipzig, Dodd loved Germany and its people.
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Nov 4, 2013 · Originally quite enamored of the Nazis, her liaisons provide a veritable who’s who of the up-and-coming National Socialists, including Rudolf Diels, then head of the Gestapo.
Martha Dodd was a free spirit who was attracted to - and dated - Nazis as well as an attache with the Soviet embassy. She has very vivid portraits of Rudolf Diels, who organized the Gestapo, and Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, Hitler's press secretary who tried to fix Martha up with Der Führer.
May 9, 2011 · So, for example, we see Martha Dodd having an affair with Rudolf Diels, the first chief of the brand-new Gestapo, and this seems shocking to us, because we know how Hitler ultimately used the Gestapo. And yet Diels was a very complicated, highly nuanced character. He was strikingly handsome, albeit in a disturbing way.
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May 4, 2012 · The 24-year-old was recently divorced, and she hit the party circuit and started to have affairs — including one with the first head of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels.
