Name Erik Christian Died 1955, Borlange, Sweden | Role Politician | |
Erik Gottfrid Christian Brandt (1884-1955) was a Swedish politician, and a deputy to the Swedish Parliament in the years 1938-1943.
He is best known for his failed nomination of Adolf Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize, on the eve of World War II. The nomination was quickly withdrawn, as Brandt, who was an antifascist, never intended for it to be a serious proposal, and instead saw it only as a "satiric criticism" on another concurrent nomination, that of a British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain.
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