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    Vidkun Quisling

    Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator

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  1. Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian fascist and Nazi collaborator. He served as Minister President of Norway from 1942 to 1945 in a Nazi puppet state. His last name has since come to mean “traitor” or “collaborator.”

  2. Jan 26, 2022 · Vidkun Quisling installed as Nazi puppet premier of Norway. On 1 February 1942, the leader of the country’s Nazi party became ‘minister president,’ his promotion followed quickly by...

  3. Into a police court in Oslo, Norway, comes Vidkun Quisling to plead for his life. One of the war's most notorious traitors faces retribution for his crimes, as the judge enters, and the first preliminary trial of a major war criminal begins.

  4. May 29, 2018 · Quisling, Vidkun (1887–1945) Norwegian fascist leader. A former minister of defence (1931–33), Quisling founded the National Union Party (1933), based on the German Nazi Party. In 1940 he collaborated with the invading Germans, and they set him up as a puppet ruler during their occupation of Norway.

  5. Jan 22, 2024 · Vidkun Quisling is known as Norway's biggest traitor. His name is a byword for traitor in several languages. Journalist Trude Lorentzen speaks to Matt Pintus about his life. Show more....

  6. One of the war's most notorious traitors faces retribution for his crimes, as the judge enters, and the first preliminary trial of a major war criminal begins. [music] Quisling, who made his name synonymous with "traitor" in his betrayal of Norway to the Nazis, hears the case against him. Once arrogant and ruthless, now he shows signs of fear.

  7. Jul 30, 1972 · Despite giving his name to the language as a synonym for traitor and despite giving his country to the Nazis in 1940, Vidkun Quisling remains a mi nor historical curiosity. Why he conspired...

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