Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Working in a Berlin kindergarten last week was 19-year-old, red-haired Fräulein Lotte Lenze whose meagre financial circumstances were briefly, spectacularly enhanced by some of the cash from the Nobel Peace Prize won in 1936 by German Pacifist Carl von Ossietsky...
...first anti-Nazis arrested after the Nazis took power (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933). In the sanatorium where Nazis confined him, Ossietsky was visited by a former German Army officer, Dr. Kurt Wannow, who palmed himself off as a lawyer, was given by the Nobel Pacifist a power of attorney which enabled him to collect the $40,000 from Oslo. About $32,000 was at one time placed by swindler Dr. Wannow in investments held partly in the name of Fräulein Lenze in hopes of making it more difficult for Sanatorium Inmate Ossietsky to recover anything. His physician...
...World War, came out of it with reactions exactly opposite to those of the Führer. While Hitler toiled and finally succeeded in awakening German militarism to fresh and grandiose efforts, Ossietsky labored as the editor of the German pacifist Weltbühne. The late, great German Nobel Peaceman Dr. Gustav Stresemann said that without Ossietsky's preparatory work he should never have been able to carry out his policy of rapprochement with French Nobel Peace-man Aristide Briand...
...struggle against Naziism, which carried him for a time to a German prison camp near noxious marshes, Carl von Ossietsky was aided by rumors that he was about to receive the Nobel Prize, which secured his transfer to a hospital. There the German guards wore him down until he gave his word that even if he ever got out of the hospital he would never again engage in any sort of pacifism. There was no suggestion of foul play last week in the death of long-ailing, wornout, beaten Nobelman Ossietsky...
...fate of most other Jewish, part-Jewish and non-Jewish physicians who mortally feared & hated Nazi domination last week remained hidden in the coffin of Nazi censorship. A Jewish Nobel Prizewinner, Professor Otto Loewi, University of Graz physiologist, was merely arrested. Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his wife were deprived of their passports and ready cash...