3 minutes agoUnbelievable but true, Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini have been candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize (Photo)
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)The fact that Adolf Hitler was actually appointed for the Nobel Peace Prize shortly before the outbreak of World War II, very few people know about it, but they also believe it. Much of the process surrounding the Nobel Prizes has been hidden in mystery since Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize for Literature [...]
Much of the process surrounding the Nobel Prizes has been hidden in mystery since Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize for Literature last year: he was not one of the contenders and the person favoured by experts, reports “Sputnik International” Transmission Periscope.
According to the Nobel Committee's self-enlisted definitions, there is a 50-year privacy rule for previous candidates.
However, some of the historic candidates have been made public and cannot lift their eyebrows.
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For many around the globe, Adolf Hitler is the personification of evil, perhaps being the most hated dictator of millions.
In 1938, then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arrived at home with Munich's historic agreement as a mediator among Europe's great powers, excluding the Soviet Union.
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Germany, Britain, France and Italy essentially allowed Hitler to annex parts of Czechoslovakia inhabited by German speakers like the area known as Sudetenland. It is unnecessary to say that Czechoslovakia itself was not even invited to the conference.
Chamberlain believed that a great war was thwarted and therefore proudly expressed “I believe there will be peace at this time”. Then Chamberlain was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939 by some people.
The following debate prompted many to react, including Sweden's Social Democrat MP, Eric Brandt.
He thought that if the world praised Chamberlain to ask Adolf Hitler not to start a war, then the price could also be given to Hitler not to start war”, says Gustav Källstrand, the first Intensant at the Nobel Museum, explained to Finnish daily Hufwoodstadsbladet.
Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill at the Potsdam Conference, 1945. Pic.twitter. com/wHskmkSXkR
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“U expected quite badly, and he later withdrew the nomination, was forced to provide an explanation that it was not seriously thought”, Källstrand explained.
Although the appointment withdrew, it did not return from history.
Another less - known candidate was Hitler's ally and armed brother, Benito Mussolini, who was nominated in 1935, the same year that Italy's fascist dictator conquered Ethiopia.
According to Gustav Källstrand, however, it is not really surprising that there have been some special appointments over the years.
In other rewards, people are required to give proposals, not indiscriminately, but, instead, invitations are sent to individual scholars, universities, scientific and similar. In the event of the peace price, it is a much more open process”, Källstrand argues.
For the price of peace, MPs from around the world, former award winners and researchers contribute more to the nominations.
The “in order to be appointed, say, for the price of physics, must be chosen by an expert. In the case of a peace price, a nomination means nothing because of the absolute number of candidates”, Källstrand claimed.
Ironically, even Hitler's arrogant man Joseph Stalin was nominated, not once but twice for his efforts to end World War II.
His first appointment was in 1945 by Norwegian historian and former Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht, and three years later by Czech professor Wladislav Rieger, however, he failed to win the Nobel Prize./Periscopi/
