Responding to some of the Hoover commentary regarding his views on USSR and the Nazis.
Hoover was very active - once the war started - in trying to help Jewish refugees from Europe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/herbert-hoover-american-jews-and-the-gop/2012/04/20/gIQAkzIpVT_blog.html
1. "Hoover supported unpopular legislation that would have admitted German Jewish children to the U.S. in 1939 — a bill that could have saved Anne Frank’s life. He collaborated with Jewish activists to publicize Hitler’s mass murder and urge the Roosevelt administration to rescue Jewish refugees. And he helped convince the Republican Party to include a plank supporting Jewish statehood in its 1944 platform — the first time either party did that."
2. "Hoover supported unpopular legislation that would have admitted German Jewish children to the U.S. in 1939 — a bill that could have saved Anne Frank’s life. He collaborated with Jewish activists to publicize Hitler’s mass murder and urge the Roosevelt administration to rescue Jewish refugees. And he helped convince the Republican Party to include a plank supporting Jewish statehood in its 1944 platform — the first time either party did that."
The Zionism aspects are not necessarily relative in a direct manner but his overall activism after leaving office (regarding WW2) was in support of helping Jewish refugees escape from Europe - even if, sadly, they were not successful.
Ironic considering what he was seen as representing in 1928.
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