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category: "Business & Finance"
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- WorldWarII
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- Person
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- WW2
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- Nazi
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summary: "Bernard Baruch was an American financier and statesman."
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born: 1870-08-19
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died: 1965-06-20
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location: "Camden, South Carolina"
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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]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 7. |