Talk:Carl von Ossietzky
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[edit] Confusing bit
His daughter achieved that the case was reopened in the late 1980-ies, men the conviction of high treason and espionage was finally confirmed by the German Supreme Court in 1992.
- This was removed for being confusing. Can someone repair and reinsert? Thanks, Sam [Spade] 14:58, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] 1935 or 36
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1935/ossietzky-bio.html
this article seems to specifically state he got the 1936 prize.
i quote: Ossietzky's candidacy for the Peace Prize was first suggested in 1934. Berthold Jacob, a companion in many a cause, may have been the first to formulate an actual plan to secure the nomination. The idea was taken up by his colleagues in the German League for Human Rights4, by Hellmut von Gerlach, a former associate on Die Weltbühne who undertook a letterwriting campaign from Paris, by organizations and famous people in many parts of the world. The nomination for 1934 arrived too late; the prize for 1935 was reserved in that year but in 1936 was voted to Ossietzky.
At this point, Ossietzky, ill with tuberculosis, had little time left to live, but the government refused to release him from the concentration camp and demanded that he decline the Nobel Prize, a demand that Ossietzky did not honor. The German Propaganda Ministry declared publicly that Ossietzky was free to go to Norway to accept the prize, but secret police documents indicate that Ossietzky was refused a passport, and, although allowed to enter a civilian hospital, was kept under constant surveillance until his death in May, 1938.
The German press was forbidden to comment on the granting of the prize to Ossietzky, and the German government decreed that in the future no German could accept any Nobel Prize.
Ossietzky's last public appearance was at a short court hearing at which his lawyer was sentenced to two years at hard labor for embezzling most of Ossietzky's prize money.
