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Originally posted by boneprone
Low point in Nobel Prize nomination history if this is true.
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As much as I agree that they shouldn't have been nominated, I believe the low point in nominations still would be Hitler...
Point is that nominations are open to a very diverse group of people:
Members of national assemblies and governments; members of international courts of law,;university chancellors; university professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology; leaders of peace research institutes and institutes of foreign affairs; former Nobel Peace Prize laureates; board members of organisations that have received the Nobel Peace Prize; present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; committee members must present their nomination at the latest at the first committee meeting after February 1); former advisers at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
In other words, it is almost inconceivable for a head of state to not be nominated if they want to, and unless you're an "ordinary person" with no strong affiliations to anyone in any of the above types of positions behing nominated means absolutely nothing.