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Quisling
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Also known as Qvisling

thumb|right|300px|Left to right: Vidkun Quisling seated next to [[Heinrich Himmler, Josef Terboven and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst in front of officers of the Waffen-SS, German Army and Air Force in 1941]]

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Named after
Vidkun Quisling
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treason
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Origin
  • Popularization in World War II
  • Verb form
  • Postwar use
  • 21st century
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|right|300px|Left to right: Vidkun Quisling seated next to [[Heinrich Himmler, Josef Terboven and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst in front of officers of the Waffen-SS, German Army and Air Force in 1941]]

Quisling (, ) is a term used in Scandinavian languages and in English to mean a citizen or politician of an occupied country who collaborates with an enemy occupying force; it may also be used more generally as a synonym for traitor or collaborator. The word originates from the surname of the Norwegian war-time leader Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), who headed a domestic Nazi collaborationist regime during the Nazi occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Quisling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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