WI Hitler awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

They gave Dag Hammarskjöld a Nobel Peace Prize in 1961, which isn’t too far from 1948.

My comment in terms of Steinman was a bit flippant, but then he got his Nobel (in Physiology or Medicine, not Peace) over six decades after 1947-48. Hammarskiöld's Peace Nobel is, on the face of it, a better point of comparison, though even he received his posthumous prize almost 14 years after Gandhi's death. IMHO there's no real case for hypocrisy when there had been no Nobel Peace Prizes awarded posthumously before 1947 (but then YMMV). I'd say its rather that the Norwegian Nobel Committee learned from its experience with Gandhi when they came to regret their decision pretty soon, and then this regret informed their decision in terms of Hammarskiöld. Both the chairperson and the secretary of the committee were the same in 1947-48 as 1961.

My general point, though, is that Gandhi was not passed by in 1947-48 only because of his death and problems with awarding the prize posthumously, but also due to perceived problems with his position in terms of the process of separating Pakistan from India. This is at least my reading of the story on the Nobel site I linked to above. So it was a question of politics and opinion, like awarding the prize always is.
 
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If I recall, they didn’t want to do it until after Indian Independence since before would anger the British, and Gandhi was assasinated a year later.

Edit: according to Wikipedia, Gandhi had been brought up for nomination for 1948 just a few days before his death. Afterwards, the committee decided to nominate no one that year since “there was no suitable living candidate.”
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Does hypocracy work backwards in time, you think? Steinman got his Nobel several decades after 1948.

More pertinently, though, that Gandhi died in between the nomination and awarding the Nobel was not the real reason not to give the Nobel to him, but just part of a justification for it. There were perceived political reasons for not choosing Gandhi in the event, and disagreement between the people doing the choosing - like there often is. In the event, they chose a "safer" choice, a decision which was very soon regretted.

See the Nobel website for a writeup.
Yes, it was still hypocritical. But also political.
 
I did some quick research on this, well I checked some Wikipedia articles which is the most research this topic deserves, and I found out that the Nobel Peace Prize is usually decided in September and announced in December. Apparently sometimes the decision is made in October. The Munich agreement was made on September 30th, 1938, and Germany invaded Poland on September 1st, 1939.

Hitler was not awarded the Nobel Peace prize for the Munich agreement because he reneged on the agreement too quickly and the agreement came too late in the year. But suppose the Nobel people were taking a long time to decide in 1938, so they could still award it right after the agreement was announced, and awarded the prize to Hitler and Chamberlain.

Would this have any effects worth mentioning at all?

Gandhi was never awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
Why would Hitler get a peace prize for threatening to invade a sovereign country? Last I checked it was Mussolini who officially introduced the agreement and played the part of the great reconciler.
 
Does hypocracy work backwards in time, you think? Steinman got his Nobel several decades after 1948.

More pertinently, though, that Gandhi died in between the nomination and awarding the Nobel was not the real reason not to give the Nobel to him, but just part of a justification for it. There were perceived political reasons for not choosing Gandhi in the event, and disagreement between the people doing the choosing - like there often is. In the event, they chose a "safer" choice, a decision which was very soon regretted.

See the Nobel website for a writeup.

Also, the peace prize is decided by the Norwegian Nobel committee, while the prizes for arts and sciences are decided by the Swedish committee and Steinman got his prize for medicine, not peace. Also, I seem to remember that though Steinman died before he was announced as the winner, he was still alive when the committee selected him.
 
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