Talk:In the Garden of Beasts

Possible inaccuracy in the body
On line three of the summary there is the assertion that the Ambassador "was initially sympathetic to Germany's new Nazi government and believed reports of brutality and anti-semitism to be exaggerated." Can someone familiar with the book verify that this is correct? I am reading the book right now and I don't remember any depiction of the Ambassador initially having been sympathetic to the Nazi government. I know his daughter was at first, however. I would take the passage out myself but I would like a second opinion. Perhaps I just missed it. OGBranniff (talk) 02:38, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll check it out in a day or two. Footnotes would help in any case. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 00:46, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks. OGBranniff (talk) 01:41, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Done. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 20:59, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Not trivia
What I added here was removed:
 * The end of its title bears a resemblance to an earlier 2009 book titled An American in Hitler's Berlin published by University of Illinois press, which is a translation of a diary kept by Abraham Plotkin from 1932 to 1933 by Catherine Collomp and Bruno Groppo.(ref)Google Books profile for American in Hitler's Berlin(/ref)

That the latter part of the subtitle of this work is pretty much taken from a book 2 years earlier isn't plausibly a coincidence. Ranze (talk) 00:33, 25 April 2013 (UTC)


 * This is trivia and of no interest. Where is the citation that demonstrates that someone other than you finds it noteworthy? You won't find one, because no one cares that the subtitle of a history resembles the title of a published diary, one from a popular press and the other from a scholarly press. And the resemblance requires the eye of a detective. These works are not in competition. No one cares. Compare:
 * In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
 * An American in Hitler's Berlin: Abraham Plotkin's Diary 1932-33
 * and the imagined resemblance disappears. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 00:48, 25 April 2013 (UTC)