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category: "World War II & Nazi Era"
tags:
  - Person
  - WW2
  - Nazi
summary: "Bernard Baruch was an American financier and statesman."
born: 1870-08-19
died: 1965-06-20
location: "Camden, South Carolina"
---

Bernard Baruch was an American financier and statesman. In the late summer of 1939, he collaborated with [[Lewis L. Strauss]] on a proposal to convince the British government to cede a large tract of colonial [[Africa]] for resettlement by European refugees, both Jewish and non-Jewish. They believed that as much as $300 million could be raised for this purpose, but it was ultimately too late to prevent the impending Nazi blitzkrieg.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 7.