Ossietzky
Americannoun
noun
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Despite a campaign to set him free, the government refused to release Ossietzky, who was ill with tuberculosis.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
They were the first journalists to win the Nobel Peace Prize since 1935, when it was awarded to Carl von Ossietzky, a German who was then detained in a concentration camp by the Nazis.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
Ressa and Muratov are the first journalists to receive the prize since Germany's Carl von Ossietzky won the 1935 award for revealing his country's secret post-war rearmament programme.
From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2021
The prize has gone to journalists before: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta of Italy, for example, won in 1907 for promoting pacifism; Carl von Ossietzky of Germany won in 1936 for discovering Nazi rearmament.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2021
And the first person to receive the award while in prison, German journalist Carl von Ossietzky, did so in 1935.
From Time ● Oct. 8, 2015
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