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TIL that Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild was arrested by the Nazis in 1938, he was released only after lengthy negotiations between the family and the Nazis and upon payment of $21,000,000($387,575,106.38), believed to have been the largest ransom payment in history for any individual.

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