>> > > Al Gore got Nobel :)
>> >
>> > Oh. Just like Goebbels
>>
>> Whew.
>>
>> Except that Joseph Goebbels didn't win the Nobel
>> Prize. The only thing they share is the first initial
>> of their last names.

Well, he did get one, but it was given to him by its original 
recipient as a token of his esteem.

        http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/khamsun.htm

"Hamsun never joined the Norwegian Nazi party, but he wrote a series 
of pro-Fascists articles. Marie, his wife, was more close to Vidkun 
Quisling, the puppet head of Norway's occupation government. When 
Hamsun met in 1943 Adolf Hitler and Josef Goebbels, he gave Goebbels 
his Nobel Prize medal as a token of his esteem. These meetings have 
inspired stories, in which Hamsun is credited with saving Jews from 
the Nazis. However, the journalist and writer Arne Tumyr has claimed 
in his biography of the author, that these stories are not true, and 
that Hamsun only succeeded in infuriating Hitler with his complaints 
about the conduct of German troops in his home country."



        Russell


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