Fun fact, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun was awarded this in 1920 and then gave the medallion to Goebbels in 1943
During World War II, Hamsun put his support behind the German war effort. He courted and met with high-ranking Nazi officers, including Adolf Hitler. Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels wrote a long and enthusiastic diary entry concerning a private meeting with Hamsun; according to Goebbels Hamsun’s “faith in German victory is unshakable”.
In 1940 Hamsun wrote that “the Germans are fighting for us”. After Hitler’s death, he published a short obituary in which he described him as “a warrior for mankind” and “a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations.”
After the war, he was detained by police on 14 June 1945, for treason, then committed to a hospital in Grimstad (Grimstad sykehus) “due to his advanced age”, according to Einar Kringlen (a professor and medical doctor). In 1947 he was tried in Grimstad, and fined. Norway’s supreme court reduced the fine from 575,000 to 325,000 Norwegian kroner.
The whereabouts of Hamsun’s medal remain unknown.
: “See! Told you I’m the master race!”Considering that the Nobel prize originates in Sweden, this is a bit self-congratulatory, no?
Yeah this is just blatant Nazi shit.
Member when Obama got the peace prize at the *beginning of his presidency? nuff said.
He waged something like 3 wars at the point, and 6 or 7 overall. What would one need to do to equal to that peace achievement? Bomb the nobel comittee itself?
If you reverse time, he ended all those wars. Did you think of that? Nobel prize please.
Holy shit. That’s it. They’re looking at history and going in reverse chronological order. 🤯
And the Nazis un-murdered millions of Jews… no wonder they support them!
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Tbh you can repost the image on a community here to make the opposite point. I actually interpreted it that way before I realized where it was posted
I actually interpreted it that way
It’s a complete sham price. Even other Europeans have criticized it for being to Sweden-centric.
Along with the obvious pro-European cultural bias, how is a comittee of 18 Swedes supposed to judge texts from all languages in the world fairly? Anything you can read untranslated is gonna have a huge advantadge.
commitee of 18 Swedes
I feel like there’s an excellent set-up to a joke somewhere in there.
Nobel prizes are definitely political bullshit at this point. For more clear reasons than this.
Kissinger got one in 1973
How many weddings should I bomb to get the Nobel peace prize?
that depends, who are you bombing?
Hmm let me check
in these case it is backwards
blows up Russian wedding
Completely unironically. The committee is HQ’d in Stockholm, ffs.
You’ll never guess which city produces the most Pulitzer Prize winners. Hint: the committee is based out of Columbia University.
Coincidentally all the best journalists are yet again the ones that regularly show up to my dinner parties.
