With Fascism on the Doorstep: The Nobel Institution in Norway, 1940-1945 During the Second World War no Nobel Peace Prize was awarded. Under the German occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1945 normal political activity was banned, and there was little the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting could do except postpone the prize awards and defend its integrity. To say that the Committee was not popular with the Nazi regime would be an understatement. Indeed, the award of the prize to the anti-militarist Carl von Ossietzky in 1936 had so infuriated Hitler as to make him forbid all Germans to receive any #NobelPrize. bit.ly/1o8NcBm
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:45:00 +0000