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Geheim!
Hoover Senior Fellow Russell Berman discusses the arrest list compiled by the Gestapo, the Nazi German secret police, in anticipation of a land invasion of Great Britain at the start of the Second World War.
September 17, 2026 • 0
August 10 marks the 144th birthday of America’s 31st president. How should the nation remember Herbert Hoover, and what might he think in the age of Trump? Margaret Hoover, host of PBS’ reprised Firing Line and a Hoover Institution overseer, discusses her family’s legacy of public service and her great-grandfather’s journey from a two-room cottage in Iowa to the presidency and beyond.
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