Trump isn’t the first to be gifted a Nobel Prize he didn’t win—Joseph Goebbels got one too

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When Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado symbolically presented Donald Trump with the Nobel Peace Prize medal last week, her gesture attracted considerable attention. But the US president is not the first politician in history to be presented with the award. More than 80 years earlier, Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun made a similar, but much more controversial, gesture.

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After Stalingrad's defeat and with the victory ever further, Joseph Goebbels devoted much of 1943 to promoting what he called “total war”, which involved the full dedication of the entire German population to the war effort. In February he delivered his famous speech on the subject at the Sports Palace in Berlin.Continue reading...

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Sold, auctioned, melted: Some Nobel Prize medals have an absurd story. And not only since María Machado passed her prize on to Donald Trump.