Facts
With fascism on the doorstep: The Nobel Institution in Norway, 1940-1945
Facts
by Øyvind Tønnesson Nobelprize.org Peace Editor, 1998-2000 During the Second World War no Nobel Peace Prize was awarded. Under the German occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1945 normal political activity was banned, and there was little the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting could do except postpone the prize awards and defend its integrity.…
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