Vidkun Quisling

Also known as Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling, Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Qvisling, Vidkun Qvisling, Quisling

Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945)

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Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian politician who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II and served as a puppet leader of Norway under German occupation. His name became so associated with betrayal and collaboration that "quisling" entered many languages as a term for a traitor who cooperates with an occupying enemy force.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1887
Died: 1945
Works: 6

Top works

Russland og vi
Quisling ruft Norwegen!
Russia and ourselves
Russland und wir
Straffesak mot Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonassøn Quisling

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Listeners: 36
Total plays: 57

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5 total works indexed

Cavernous Angioma: A Review of 126 Collected and 12 New Clinical Cases
· 1986 · cited 369x

Article

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (/ˈkwɪzlɪŋ/; Norwegian: [ˈʋɪ̂dkʉn ˈkʋɪ̂slɪŋ] ; 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who headed the puppet government of Norway during the country's occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II.

He first came to international prominence as a close collaborator of the explorer Fridtjof Nansen, and through organising humanitarian relief during the Russian famine of 1921 in Povolzhye. 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 agrarian governments of Peder Kolstad (1931–1932) and Jens Hundseid (1932–1933).