AHC: Hitler wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Nekronion

With a POD after 1924, make Hitler win the Nobel peace prize.

Bonus points if he gets it multiple times or together with Stalin. ;)
 
Meadow

Meadow

Perhaps with only minimal butterflies and a more Germanophilic makeup of the panel, he could win it in December 1938 for his pioneering work with Chamberlain at Munich to avoid war over Czechoslovakia? Then again, Chamberlain himself is perhaps more likely to win it in that scenario.

EDIT: That said, prizes had been shared before that. Hitler-Chamberlain '38, anyone?
 

Makemakean

He was actually nominated in the late 30s, mostly as an act of tasteless satire:

"Adolf Hitler was nominated once in 1939. Incredulous though it may seem today, the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939, by a member of the Swedish parliament, an E.G.C. Brandt. Apparently though, Brandt never intended the nomination to be taken seriously. Brandt was to all intents and purposes a dedicated antifascist, and had intended this nomination more as a satiric criticism of the current political debate in Sweden. ( At the time, a number of Swedish parliamentarians had nominated then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin for the Nobel Peace Prize, a nomination which Brandt viewed with great skepticism. ) However, Brandt's satirical intentions were not well received at all and the nomination was swiftly withdrawn in a letter dated 1 February 1939."
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Sporter

The POD, and this is a big one, is that he wins the Second World War.

Then he'd win the Nobel Peace Prize every year... or else! ;)
 
Laqueesha

Laqueesha

"Adolf Hitler was nominated once in 1939. Incredulous though it may seem today, the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939, by a member of the Swedish parliament, an E.G.C. Brandt. Apparently though, Brandt never intended the nomination to be taken seriously. Brandt was to all intents and purposes a dedicated antifascist, and had intended this nomination more as a satiric criticism of the current political debate in Sweden. ( At the time, a number of Swedish parliamentarians had nominated then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin for the Nobel Peace Prize, a nomination which Brandt viewed with great skepticism. ) However, Brandt's satirical intentions were not well received at all and the nomination was swiftly withdrawn in a letter dated 1 February 1939."
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This makes me wonder; maybe the people who nominated U.S. President Barack H. Obama II for the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2009 were doing it in satire, but for some strange reason he actually ended up winning it.
 
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Makemakean

Sumeragi said:
I doubt even Hitler would be that crass to go against the "One kind of Prize per person" rule.
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Well, it was actually uncomfortably common in Nazi-Germany to condemn General Relativity as false. Why? Because Einstein was Jewish, and thus General Relativity was "Jewish physics." No, I'm not making that up. That actually happened.

For all we know, a victorious Hitler might win the Physics Prize of 1946 for his efforts to purge physics of the "foolish notion that space may be curved."
 

Sumeragi

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Makemakean said:
Well, it was actually uncomfortably common in Nazi-Germany to condemn General Relativity as false. Why? Because Einstein was Jewish, and thus General Relativity was "Jewish physics." No, I'm not making that up. That actually happened.

For all we know, a victorious Hitler might win the Physics Prize of 1946 for his efforts to purge physics of the "foolish notion that space may be curved."
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That's still a different prize from the Peace Prize, so it is within the boundaries of Nobel's will. Think Curie.
 

Makemakean

Sumeragi said:
That's still a different prize from the Peace Prize, so it is within the boundaries of Nobel's will. Think Curie.
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Wait, what? You're saying it's against Nobel's will to award the same person the same Nobel Prize twice?

Sumeragi said:
I doubt even Hitler would be that crass to go against the "One kind of Prize per person" rule.
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I commented on it and I missed it? :eek:

Scary.

In any case: There's no such rule. Just check up the case of John Bardeen.

They even made a Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic about him:

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Sydneyinspace

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Maybe the Nobel Prizes would be seen as some kind of "League of Nations" of international awards. After WWII they would lose so much legitimacy that some other prize/establishment would take over or be formed.
 

Just Leo

Hitler could commit suicide, thus saving millions of lives, and win the prize posthumously. He could take Stalin with him, and save millions more.
 

Domoviye

Stalin goes insane and invades Europe in 1938. Nazi Germany is on the forefront of the war for the capitalists, and within 5 years the Soviet Union is defeated and pushed well back.
Fascism becomes the new ideology of choice, spearheaded by Adolf Hitler. With the new peace and 'prosperity' Hitler is nominated for the award and wins.
 

Dilvish

Adolph Hitler, painter, Great War veteran, and notable peace activist. He became famous for his organization of protests against both German rearmament and the punative effects of the Versailles Treaty. Sadly, his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize did not protect him from the living hell of fasict Germany's concentration camps.

Also sadly, there is a theory popular in some conspiracy circles that Hitler's peace prize was due to the machinations of the French and British military-industrial complexes.
 

Nekronion

Dilvish said:
Adolph Hitler, painter, Great War veteran, and notable peace activist. He became famous for his organization of protests against both German rearmament and the punative effects of the Versailles Treaty. Sadly, his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize did not protect him from the living hell of fasict Germany's concentration camps.

Also sadly, there is a theory popular in some conspiracy circles that Hitler's peace prize was due to the machinations of the French and British military-industrial complexes.
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Um... A POD after 1924 makes him being a pacifist pretty unlikely.
 
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