Knut Hamsun, a Norwegian writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

[andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social]

Knut Hamsun, a Norwegian writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

In 1943, he sent Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's propaganda minister) his Nobel Prize medal as a gift.

[xbezdick@masto.ai]

@andrewstroehlein It sure does rhyme.

[cyberfelidae@mastodon.social]

@andrewstroehlein I didn't know. Everything repeats itself. Frightening.

[pa27@mastodon.social]

@andrewstroehlein History repeats. We never seem to learn!

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@andrewstroehlein while aligning with the nazis, he was also trying to curry favors for occupied norway (and failed)

[nickiquote@mstdn.social]

@andrewstroehlein He sounds like a right Knut.

[thumptastic3@mstdn.plus]

@andrewstroehlein Confimation.

[koochulainn@mastodon.ie]

@andrewstroehlein Not much of a writer if he cant even spell his own name correctly.

[beecycling@wandering.shop]

@Kierkegaanks @andrewstroehlein Of course. Fascists demand loyalty, but never reward it.

[cafejunkie@troet.cafe]

@andrewstroehlein
May be true.
BUT 1943 Norway was fully controlled by the Wehrmacht.
So perhaps it wasn't entirely voluntary.
🧐

[lykkerik@fribygda.no]

@andrewstroehlein At least he won that Nobel Prize in literature on merit. The merits of last year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize are more questionable. If you didn't read any of Hamsun's works, you should. Hamsun's politics on the other hand was just like described.

[kraemer_hb@mastodon.social]

@andrewstroehlein The Nobel Prize medals of Max von Laue and James Franck were dissolved in aqua regia in 1940 when the Nazis invaded Denmark. They should not get to seize them. The resulting orange fluid was not noticed, and the gold was extracted later and cast again by the Nobel Comittee in 1952.

[affekt@hachyderm.io]

@Kraemer_HB @andrewstroehlein always resist in every way possible

[davengkel@mastodon.social]

@andrewstroehlein Sult kan få en til at gøre de mærkeligste ting. 😉