Nobel Peace Prize 1938

The Nobel Peace Prize 1938 was awarded to Office international Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees) "for having carried on the work of Fridtjof Nansen to the benefit of refugees across Europe"

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