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Banquet of the blessed

Beautiful Minds: The Centennial Exhibition of the Nobel Prize

The prize for peace

East and West Germany will be struggling this week over the centenary of the birth of the writer Carl von Ossietzky, one of the most remarkable of Hitler’s opponents, on October 3, 1889. When the Nazis came to power in 1933 he was among the first sent to a concentration camp. The SS guards beat him and called him a “Polish swine.” Physically broken he became a symbol, the most famous political prisoner in the world in the mid-Thirties, his life saved by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize.