# What's so great about Goethe?

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**Created:** [November 15, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-goethe/331182 "2005-11-15T17:20:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-goethe/331182/21 "2005-12-14T18:26:58Z")

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Forgot to mention: Goethe’s profile appeared on the German National Prize for Art and Science, a “Nazi Nobel” which Hitler created after a German pacifist was awarded a real Nobel. The pacifist was in a concentration camp at the time, and was not allowed to attend the award ceremony (big surprise there). Hitler ordered that no German could receive a Nobel Prize, and set up a German-only award in its stead. Only eight people received it before the Third Reich met its well-deserved end.

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