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Cordell Hull, U.S. secretary of state during Hitler’s reign of terror, sent fleeing Jews back to Germany where many of them ended up murdered by Nazis Rubio is doing Hull proud.

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This is a remarkable response from the German Foreign Office to Rubio and Vance decrying Germany's decision to declare AfD an extremist group as "undemocratic" Because it speaks to the heart of our current crisis - groups, like MAGA and AfD, seeking to use democracy to dismantle democracy

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American Jews sought to raise money to prevent the mass murder of Romanian Jews but were blocked by the State Department. "In wartime, in order to send money out of the United States, two government agencies had to sign a simple release—the Treasury Department under Henry

Morgenthau and the State Department under Secretary Cordell Hull. Morgenthau signed immediately. The State Department delayed, delayed, and delayed, as more Jews were dying in the Transnistria camps.

In 1940, Jewish representatives in the USA lodged an official complaint against the discriminatory policies the State Department was using against the Jews. The results were fatal: Hull gave strict orders to every USA consulate worldwide forbidding the issuing of visas to Jews ... At the