Nobel Committee Lists Past Winners Who Gave Away Prize Including to Hitler's Top Nazi Propagandist

"Norway's Nobel Committee issued a pointed reminder on Friday that its Peace Prize remains inseparably linked to the laureate it selects regardless of what the winner later chooses to do with the medal before helpfully listing past instances in which prizes had been given away. Among them was a Norwegian novelist who once gifted his Nobel medal to Nazi Germany's chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels."

"The clarification arrived a day after 2025 Peace Prize laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado visited the Oval Office to gift her medal to President Donald Trump. Speaking to Fox & Friends on Friday, Machado said the president deserved the prize and that she was giving it to him on behalf of the people of Venezuela, crediting his administration with the capture and removal of Nicolas Maduro."

"The award is inseparably linked to the laureate, the committee reiterated, before adding that the Nobel Foundation's statutes place no limits on what winners may do with the physical prize. Laureates, it noted, are free to keep, give away, sell, or donate the medal, diploma, or prize money. What followed was a list of precedents, medals loaned to museums, donated to institutions, or presented to governments. Only one example on the committee's list, however, involved a laureate travelling abroad to personally honour a political figure."

Norway's Nobel Committee reminded that the Peace Prize remains inseparably linked to the laureate regardless of what winners do with the physical medal. The Nobel Foundation's statutes place no limits on whether laureates keep, give away, sell, or donate the medal, diploma, or prize money. The statement followed Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 laureate Maria Corina Machado gifting her medal to President Donald Trump and crediting his administration with the capture and removal of Nicolas Maduro. The committee listed historical precedents of medals loaned to museums, donated to institutions, or presented to governments, including Knut Hamsun sending his medal to Joseph Goebbels in 1943.

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