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. Hoover holds one of the few surviving copies of the printed and bound list, which has the word "Geheim!" printed on its cover, meaning secret. Names and addresses of people targeted for arrest, including current politicians as well as cultural figures and exiles to Britain.
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How can we make better decisions—especially when the stakes are highest? In Judgment Calls, historian Zachary Shore tackles this timeless puzzle with intellectual daring and uncommon range.
November 1, 2026
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The world breathed a sigh of relief when, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month—November 11, 1918—the guns fell silent. The Great War, as World War One was then known, was over in Europe.
November 11, 2026
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This Monday marks thirty-six years since the beginning of the end of the Cold War. In the excerpt below from Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, I recall watching the Iron Curtain part while serving in the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment, a unit charged with border surveillance and control along the East-West German border and the West Germany-Czechoslovakia border.
November 10, 2026
