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kentuck

(111,110 posts)
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 09:06 AM Apr 2018

Why was Hitler nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 1939?

https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Hitler-nominated-for-the-Nobel-Peace-Prize-1939

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Adolf Hitler was a ambitious man. He did not came to power , he was brought to power.He was the best candidate at that time be it for his rude yet inspiring personality or for his ability to dream big.

After WWI, Germany was a failed state. Enforced democracy was resulting in violent clashes and riots. The German political system allowed one man and one party rule. Hitler was an Austrian soldier who rose and spoke for the cause of the German people .

During his early political years ,he main propaganda was to take back Germany to its glory days just before WWI as under Kaiser William II. He contested in the elections to become the Prime Minister, he lost.But just like any great (or terrible) man, he never gave up. And a year or so later he was the chancellor and the National Socialist [NAZI] was the biggest party in entire Germany.

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Now, the question was “was Adolf Hitler nominated for the noble prize”.

Well ,Yes. just after coming to power he took control of the press.The freedom of press and all the means of mass communication served the NAZI cause.Whatever the Nazis did, would fail to make the headlines.The newspaper would hid the true sufferings of the people and fill the pages with false stories
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Why was Hitler nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 1939? (Original Post) kentuck Apr 2018 OP
Arafat actually won it MichMan Apr 2018 #1
Not to mention Aung San Suu Kyi oberliner Apr 2018 #3
Sad reminder of another time. mountain grammy Apr 2018 #4
The nomination was meant ironically oberliner Apr 2018 #2
Indeed. But not by all. kentuck Apr 2018 #5
Hitler's motto; Make Germany Great Again, (well, that could have been it.) S.E. TN Liberal Apr 2018 #6

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
5. Indeed. But not by all.
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 09:35 AM
Apr 2018

http://www.cjnews.com/news/international/nobel-peace-prize-hitler-chamberlain

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But it fell to a Jew like Gertrude Stein, a Nobel laureate, to spearhead a campaign for the nomination of Hitler for the Peace Prize first in 1934 and again in 1938. She told the New York Times Magazine on May 6, 1934 the following: “I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize because he is removing all the elements of contest by driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace…By suppressing Jews… he was ending struggle in Germany.”

Not surprisingly, in 1938 she acted on her beliefs and actually nominated Hitler to the prize. This was disclosed by Gustav Hendikksen, a former member of the Nobel Committee and subsequently professor emeritus of Bible Studies at Sweden’s Uppsala University in 1996. Unlike Stein, E.C.G Brandt, a member of the Swedish parliament, also proposed Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize but as a farce to protest the nomination of Chamberlain. Stein and the other signatories were not joking. Indeed, while residing in France during the war, Stein came to admire Vichy’s leader Marshal Philippe Petain and actually translated a series of his anti-Semitic speeches and writings into English for the edification of Vichy’s Anglo-Saxon admirers. After the war, when the horrors of the Holocaust became public, she even made a pilgrimage to Hitler’s Berchtesgaden retreat and wanted to take with her an iron radiator as a souvenir to be used as a flower pot. Unfortunately, Stein was neither the first nor the last Jew to worship at the altar of those who wish Jews ill.

S.E. TN Liberal

(508 posts)
6. Hitler's motto; Make Germany Great Again, (well, that could have been it.)
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 11:16 AM
Apr 2018

But somehow, that motto sounds a bit familiar. If I could just figure where that motto has been used recently....

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