Andrew StroehleinKnut 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@andrewstroehlein It sure does rhyme.
Martha 🇪🇺@andrewstroehlein I didn't know. Everything repeats itself. Frightening.
Graeme 🏴@andrewstroehlein History repeats. We never seem to learn!
Nick@andrewstroehlein He sounds like a right Knut.
Thumptastic3@andrewstroehlein Confimation.
Koochulainn@andrewstroehlein Not much of a writer if he cant even spell his own name correctly.
Lykkerik@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.
Matthias Krämer@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.
David@andrewstroehlein Sult kan få en til at gøre de mærkeligste ting. 😉
Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦Capitulation rarely solves anything. In fact it emboldens.
FediThing 
Good grief... apparently Hamsun wrote a eulogy for Hitler after his death calling him "a prophet of the gospel of justice for all nations" 🤮
How does someone so intelligent become so far removed from reality?
Mónica@FediThing @andrewstroehlein I always struggle with understanding that. If a person is indeed smart in a field, how can they lack so much empathy? Is empathy independent of your intelligence?
Woozle Hypertwin@nottern @FediThing @andrewstroehlein
Could it be a deeply racial/ingroup mindset? Like, "justice" means "our group (aryans. whitepeople, Christians, whatever) gets to rule like we deserve, without interference from other groups who aren't really people anyway"? I mean, if they simply cannot imagine people outside their group as being people, then maybe it makes an ugly kind of sense?
@woozle @nottern @andrewstroehlein
Yeah, that sounds the most likely explanation unfortunately 😞
(But even that's sort of weird as Hitler had invaded and occupied Hamsun's own country.)
@FediThing @nottern @andrewstroehlein Another characteristic seems to be that they don't really care much about consistency... a lot of it seems to come down to just "follow the leader", and the group-identity thing is only one tool that fash leaders use to start their base all rowing in the same direction.
@FediThing @woozle @andrewstroehlein True. What's us and what's them may be anything. It's kind of hard to think that everyone is us, even trying to be as empathetic as possible
@nottern @FediThing @andrewstroehlein
We should probably be teaching kids better ways of thinking about these issues. [makes mental note for after the revolution]
Robert HSome people are lucky, they retain their mentality and compass from youth. Some stray. It happens a lot in science. A brilliant graduate student and professor moves into new areas with truly crazy ideas.
Corpomancer@FediThing @andrewstroehlein Happens relatively often, it even has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
Carlos SolísIf the Nobel committee didn't revert the award then, it won't do it now. Especially the Peace prize, it's become a red flag into itself (many recipients have had some major dirt to dig)
Timo Grün@andrewstroehlein
“And so it goes.” —Kurt Vonnegut
“And so it goes.” —Kurt Vonnegut
AskASwiss@andrewstroehlein well, apparently that dude was really good at propaganda… millions of Germans and also some from other countries believed his brown ugly shit