Vidkun Quisling

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonnsøn Quisling , officer of the Norwegian royal army of 1911 with 1921, the major Vidkun Quisling (July 18th 1887 - October 24th 1945) was in Norway the principal cantor of collaboration with the occupant Nazi during the Second world war.

Military attach3e with Petrograd then Helsinki, it is married with a Russian. Of 1921 with 1925, it works for humane causes, that it is with the service of the prisoners of war German and Austro-Hungarian in Russia, of the Russian civilians taken in the storm of the civil war, or the populations of Balkans. It is decorated by Great Britain which entrusted to him the guard of its diplomatic interests near the Soviet capacity of 1927 with 1929. Minister for defense in Norway of 1931 with 1933, it gains there a reputation of intransigence and strikebreaker.

The turning of its political career takes place the May 13rd 1933 with the foundation of the Nasjonal Samling (Started from National union), copied on the NSDAP hitlérien but which essuie failure on failure with the elections. In 1937, the party is even close to disappearance.

In December 1939, major Quisling meets Hitler and presses it to help it to seize the power in Norway, agitating the spectrum of a British invasion to cut the road of Swedish iron . The allied threat seeming to specify itself, Germany invades the Norway the April 8th 1940 and Quisling proclaims chief of the national government as of the following day. The hostility of the Norwegian population leads Hitler however to return this last later one week. Quisling is reinstalled with the capacity only in February 1942 and collaborates consequently actively with the occupant Nazi, that it is by off-setting the Jewish populations, as a combatant the resistant ones to the sides of the Gestapo or by inviting the young Norwegians to integrate the Waffen-SS.

Stopped with the German capitulation, Quisling is considered to be and recognized guilty of high treason. He is shot the October 24th 1945 with Oslo.

The " term; quisling" entered the current language to designate a traitor and Collaborationiste with the occupying forces.

Bigliography

(in) Oddvar K. Høidal, Quisling: With Study in Treason , Oslo, Universitetsforlaget, 1989, ISBN 82-00-18400-5
(in) Hans Fredrik Dahl, Quisling: With Study in Treachery , New York, CUP, 1999
(it) G. Payne Stanley, It fascismo: Origimi, storia E declino delle dittature che if sound system transom will tra to it due war , Rome, Newton Compton, 2006

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