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 * Christmas Declaration by Men and Women of German Ancestry

The Christmas Declaration by Men and Women of German Ancestry was written by American journalist Dorothy Thompson and signed by 50 prominent Americans of German ancestry. It condemned the Holocaust and called on all Americans, especially those of German ancestry, to repudiate the Nazis. It appeared as a full-page advertisement on December 28, 1942 in major American newspapers, including The New York Times. It was paid for by the World Jewish Congress.

But the signatory who was by far the best known to the American public was George Herman “Babe” Ruth.

Loyal Americans of German Descent from an original by Albrecht Dürer

https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=osu1268155678&disposition=inline

United States Office of War Information Victor, Joseph, and Bernard Ridder all added their signatures to the Loyal Americans’ “Christmas Declaration” in December 1942, which urged the German people to overthrow the Nazis. Rejecting Nazi ideology as a threat to German culture, the declaration also urged Germans in the United States to speak out against it. Broadcast by the OWI to the U.S. military and to occupied Europe, the statement also included the signatures of figures such as Babe Ruth, composer Walter Damrosch, scholar Reinhold Niebuhr, journalist William Shirer, and George Seibel of the American Turners, a German-American gymnastic organization. 276

This helps to explain why the Office of War Information endorsed the Loyal Americans of German Descent, a group that listed well-known figures like Babe Ruth and William Shirer alongside German-American organizational leaders.

https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=odpZYejNLmcC&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=Christmas+Declaration+by+Men+and+Women+of+German+Ancestry&source=bl&ots=UOfFZz661O&sig=ACfU3U2bNXxVx8w_kr5qRQPAoj4sgJ8lfw&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y&hl=zh-CN&sourceid=cndr#v=onepage&q=Christmas%20Declaration%20by%20Men%20and%20Women%20of%20German%20Ancestry&f=false

https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qA10qDSplpcC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=Christmas+Declaration+by+Men+and+Women+of+German+Ancestry&source=bl&ots=bm3UmNF7MA&sig=ACfU3U0x_EEu2Jfkuhqw21uKxtJjxnfYgg&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y&hl=zh-CN&sourceid=cndr#v=onepage&q=Christmas%20Declaration%20by%20Men%20and%20Women%20of%20German%20Ancestry&f=false

German American Bund

https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/flynn_smear.pdf John T. Flynn The chief product of this outfit is a pamphlet bitterly attacking Americans of German descent and in particular Mr. Victor Ridder, publisher of a number of American newspapers. One of these is the German language newspaper, Staats Zeitung. The pamphlet is signed by Foerster and Tetens with a preface by Quentin Reynolds and Rex Stout. Ridder is accused of visiting Hitler and of signing a public declaration after Pearl Harbor artfully designed to soften public sentiment toward Germany. The truth is that while Mr. Ridder visited Hitler before the war —in 1933—he did so at the request of certain Jewish leaders to try to point out to him the folly of his persecution of the Jews. The declaration he signed after Pearl Harbor, known as the Christmas Declaration, was prepared by Miss Dorothy Thompson at the request of our government and was printed in numerous newspapers as an advertisement and paid for by the American Jewish Congress. All Ridder had to do with it was to sign it at the request of a government official.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/804290-mlb-babe-ruths-courageous-actions-on-behalf-of-the-jewish-people

Jewish organizations https://www.google.com.hk/books/edition/The_Nazi_Holocaust_Part_8_Bystanders_to/Aom8_1elYxIC?hl=zh-CN&gbpv=1&dq=%22Christmas+Declaration%22+by+Men+and+Women+of+German+Ancestry&pg=PA730&printsec=frontcover

Signatories
source:
 * Henry Seidel Canby, editor of Saturday Review
 * Walter Damrosch, composer and conductor
 * Christian Gauss, dean at Princeton University
 * Arthur Hauck, president of the University of Maine
 * Oswald D. Heck, Speaker of the New York State Assembly
 * Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation
 * Theodore Knauth, radio commentator
 * Louis P. Lochner, author and correspondent
 * Babe Ruth, baseball player
 * George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College
 * R. J. Thomas, president of United Auto Workers
 * Carl Frederick Wittke, dean at Oberlin College
 * William L. Shirer
 * Reinhold Niebuhr
 * Victor F. Ridder