70
years ago on this date, October 24, 1945, Vidkun Quisling was shot by a firing
squad for treason. I will post information about this Norwegian Nazi from
Wikipedia and other links.
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Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (Norwegian: [ˈʋɪdkʉn ˈkʋɪʃlɪŋ] 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945)
was a Norwegian military officer and politician, mostly known as nominal head
of government of Norway during German
occupation.
Quisling
first came to international prominence as a close collaborator of Fridtjof Nansen, organizing humanitarian relief
during the Russian famine of
1921 in Ukraine. He was
posted as a Norwegian diplomat to the Soviet Union, and for some time also
managed British diplomatic affairs there. He returned to Norway in 1929, and
served as Minister of
Defence in the
governments of Peder Kolstad
(1931–32) and Jens Hundseid
(1932–33), representing the Farmers' Party.
Although Quisling achieved some popularity after his attacks on the political left,
his party failed to win any seats in the Storting and was little more than
peripheral in 1940. On 9 April 1940, with the German invasion of
Norway in progress, he attempted to seize power in the world's first
radio-broadcast coup d'état, but
failed after the Germans refused to support his government.
From
1942 to 1945 he served as Minister-President,
heading the Norwegian state administration jointly with the German civilian
administrator Josef Terboven.
His pro-Nazi puppet government, known as the Quisling regime, was dominated by ministers
from Nasjonal Samling,
the party he founded in 1933. The collaborationist government participated in
Germany's Final Solution.
Quisling was put on trial during the legal
purge in Norway after World War II and found guilty of charges
including embezzlement, murder and high treason. He was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress,
Oslo, on 24 October 1945. The word quisling has since become a synonym for
collaborationist, an allusion to the very poor light in which Quisling's
actions were seen both at the time and after his death.
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