[Las Vegas Dave]

Vidkun Quisling
NORWAY'S BENEDICT ARNOLD

Born 1887.
Executed Oct. 24, 1945.

AS IN ALL the other occupied countries, the Nazi power profited from the support of local sympathisers. During a visit to Hitler in Berlin in the winter of 1939-40, the leader of the national socialist Nasjonal Samling Party, Vidkun Quisling, had pointed out how valuable it would be for Germany to occupy Norway. Immediately after the invasion, on the morning of April 9, 1940, he proclaimed himself the new head of the government and ordered the Norwegian armed forces to stop battling the Germans. But Quisling's intervention backfired and stimulated the resistance. Thus, the occupying power quickly realized that -- for the time being -- Quisling did not serve their interests and they chose to base their administration of the country on a certain degree of give-and-take with the existing civilian authorities.

[Geezerette]

Thank you for that!!! I never did learn (or if I did in school, I forgot!) the details about Quisling.

So he was executed ... I guess the Norwegians had more cojones then than they do now!

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[Geezerette]

Michael Savage is now giving us the history of Quisling!!

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