Erik Gottfrid Christian Brandt

Erik Gottfrid Christian Brandt (1884-1955) was a Swedish politician, and a deputy to the Swedish Parliament in the years 1938-1943.

He is best known for his failed nomination of Adolf Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize, on the eve of World War II.[1] The nomination was quickly withdrawn, as Brandt, who was an antifascist, never intended for it to be a serious proposal, and instead saw it only as a "satiric criticism" on another concurrent nomination, that of a British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Facts on the Nobel Peace Prizes". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2014-05-08.


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