The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Peace, 1901-1956

Year:	1945
Number:	8-1
Nominee:
Name:	Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1879
Year, death:	1953
Profession/Category:	Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), Premier of the Soviet state (1941-1953)
City:	Moscow
Country:	RU (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Motivation:	Stalin was nominated for his efforts to end World War II.
Nominator:
Name:	Halvdan Koht
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	Historian and former foreign minister. Former member of the Nobel Committee (1919-1937, 1940-1942)
University:	Oslo
City:	Oslo
Country:	No (NORWAY)
Evaluation:	No
Comment:	The nominations made in 1944 and 1945 were valid for both the reserved prize for 1944 and for the 1945 prize. Koht nominated Cordell Hull for the peace prize, but he also mentioned seven other candidates that were qualified for the peace prize. However, he did not explicitly nominate any of them. The persons mentioned were: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston S. Churchill, Anthony Eden, Josef Stalin, Max Litvinov, Edvard Benes, Jan Smuts.