In 1931, two years before the Nazis rose to power, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the 1936 Olympic games to Germany. After Adolf Hitler became chancellor in 1933, anti-Nazi activists in the United States began arguing that Nazi Germany's policies should disqualify Berlin from hosting...
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During the 1930s, boxing champion Barney Ross (1909-1967) became wildly popular among American Jews, who saw him as an antidote to the stereotypical image of Jews as physically unfit. Later Ross publicly championed the cause of rescuing Jews from the Holocaust and establishing a Jewish state. When...
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George Herman "Babe" Ruth, the legendary baseball slugger, participated in a protest by German-Americans against the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews. The protest was organized by Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961), the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, who was once described...
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