The Imprisoned Peace Prize Winner
During Nobel Peace Prize announcement season, it is worth remembering the tragic story of Carl von Ossietzky, the man awarded the prize in 1935. He was a journalist held in a Nazi concentration camp, who—though eventually released from prison—was never able to travel to Norway to accept his prize before his death. "If ever a man worked, fought & suffered for Peace, it is the sickly little German, Carl von Ossietzky," TIME reported after the news broke. "For nearly a year the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has been swamped with petitions from all shades of Socialists, Liberals and literary folk generally, nominating Carl von Ossietzky for the 1935 Peace Prize. Their slogan: 'Send the Peace Prize into the Concentration Camp.'"
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