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Today in History
September 19, 2011
In 1945, Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis (he was executed by firing squad in Oct. 1945). In 1960, Hurricane Donna, a...

Far- right Vienna ball sparks outrage on Holocaust Day
February 01, 2012
After Nazi troops invaded Norway in 1940, the Scandinavian country was ruled by a collaborationist government headed by Vidkun Quisling, whose name became synonymous with''...

Norway mass- killer seeks show- trial celebrity
January 27, 2012
Norway famously shot wartime Nazi collaborating leader Vidkun Quisling for high treason in 1945, three years before the last execution in the home of the Nobel Peace Prize. The...

Today in History
September 29, 2010
In 1945, Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis (he was executed by firing squad in Oct. 1945). In 1963, twenty black students...

Wikipedia

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian politician. On 9 April 1940, with the German invasion of Norway in progress, he seized power in a Nazi-backed coup d'etat that garnered him international infamy. From 1942 to 1945 he served as Minister-President, working with the occupying forces. His government, known as the Quisling regime, was dominated by ministers from Nasjonal Samling, the party he had founded in 1933. The collaborationist government participated in Germany's Final Solution. Quisling was put on trial during the post-war legal purge in Norway and found guilty of charges...

Vidkun Quisling Tweets

	Inexplicably, Twitter's 'Who to follow' recommends @nick_clegg. If I wanted to follow traitorous bastards I'd follow @vidkun_quisling. Twitter: @KaiserOfCrisps
	WACKY WORD OF THE DAY: QUISLING (noun) - one who collaborates with the enemy, a traitor (named after Norwegian army officer Vidkun Quisling… Twitter: @amyhagberg
	It strikes one that @CatholicDems does an outstanding Vidkun Quisling act. Twitter: @jstrevino