biography
| name: |
Ossietzky, Carl von
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pronunciation:
[osyetskee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1888–1938)
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| biography:
| Pacifist and writer, born in Hamburg, N Germany. A reluctant conscript in the German army in World War 1, he was co-founder of Nie wieder Krieg (1922, No More War), and editor of the weekly Weltbühne, which exposed German military leaders' secret rearmament activities. Convicted of treason in 1931, his sentence was commuted, but when Hitler became chancellor he was arrested and sent to Papenburg concentration camp (1933). While he was in prison hospital he was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize for Peace, the implications of which angered Hitler, who decreed in 1937 that no German could accept a Nobel Prize. He died of tuberculosis while under prison conditions in a private hospital. |
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