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
The prize is the first Nobel Peace Prize for journalists since the German Carl von Ossietzky won it in 1935 for revealing his country's secret post-war rearmament programme.
From Reuters ● Dec. 3, 2021
Ossietzky died at a Nazi hospital in 1938.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2017
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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