Saturday 8 February 2014

Looking back at 1939


From Nobelprize.org the official website of the Nobel Prize:

The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Peace, 1901-1956
Year:
1939
Number:
9-1
Nominee:
Name:
Adolf Hitler
Gender:
M
Year, birth:
1889
Year, death:
1945
Profession/Category:
Chancellor and Fhrer of Germany (1933-1945).
City:
Berlin
Country:
DE (GERMANY)
Motivation:
Hitler was the leader of the German Nationalist Socialist Party.
Nominator:
Name:
E.G.C. Brandt
Gender:
M
Profession/Category:
Member of the Swedish parliament
Country:
SE (SWEDEN)
Evaluation:
No
Comment:
The nomination was withdrawn in a letter of February 1, 1939.

Two days before the letter withdrawing the nomination was written, Adolf Hitler had made a speech in which he stated:

For hundreds of years Germany was good enough to receive these elements, although they possessed nothing except infectious political and physical diseases. What they possess today, they have by a very large extent gained at the cost of the less astute German nation by the most reprehensible manipulations.
Today we are merely paying this people what it deserves. When the German nation was, thanks to the inflation instigated and carried through by Jews, deprived of the entire savings which it had accumulated in years of honest work, when the rest of the world took away the German nation’s foreign investments, when we were divested of the whole of our colonial possessions, these philanthropic considerations evidently carried little noticeable weight with democratic statesmen....
One thing I should like to say on this day which may be memorable for others as well as for us Germans: In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance the Jewish race which only received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then among many other things settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time now they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!....

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