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Von Ossietzky’s Peace Prize

Back in the day on November 23rd, 1936, the Nobel Committee chose to award its Peace Prize for the previous year to pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky. The honor was announced at a time when the German anti-fascist was hospitalized and kept under constant surveillance by Gestapo forces.Von Ossietzky’s health had seriously declined in the Nazi concentration camps due to hard labor, torture and inadaquate medical attention paid to his bout with tuberculosis. From his sickbed, he was disallowed from traveling to Oslo to recieve his Peace Prize though Nazi propaganda officially stated otherwise. In fact, the German government wanted von Ossietzky to decline the distinction, but in his final act of defiance, he accepted it as a sign of ‘understanding between peoples.’ Seeing it differently, Adolf Hitler decreed shortly thereafter that no German was eligible to be awarded by the Nobel Committee. The irony of von Ossietzky’s Peace Prize was that it was decided five years to the day that he was sentenced to prison under the Weimar Republic for publishing an expose on its rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Pardoned in 1932, he was put back in prison after the Reichstag Fire and never saw another free day in his life before passing in 1938.

Blessed and imprisoned are the peacemakers.

For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history