Vidkun Quisling | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Vidkun Quisling


00:02:17 1 Early life
00:02:26 1.1 Background
00:05:35 1.2 Travels
00:08:12 1.2.1 Paris, Eastern Europe and Norway
00:10:26 1.2.2 Russia and the rouble scandal
00:12:23 2 Early political career
00:12:33 2.1 Final return to Norway
00:15:36 2.2 Defence minister
00:19:38 2.3 Popular party leader
00:22:52 2.4 iFører/i of a party in decline
00:26:12 3 World War II
00:26:21 3.1 Coming of war
00:30:31 3.2 German invasion and coup d'état
00:34:26 3.3 Head of the government
00:40:27 3.4 Minister President
00:49:20 4 Arrest, trial, death, and legacy
00:53:56 5 Personality
00:56:54 6 Religious and philosophical views



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Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (; Norwegian: [ˈvɪdkʉn ˈkvɪslɪŋ] (listen); 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer and politician who nominally headed the government of Norway during the occupation of the country by Nazi Germany during World War II.  He first came to international prominence as a close collaborator of explorer Fridtjof Nansen, organizing 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 governments of Peder Kolstad (1931–32) and Jens Hundseid (1932–33), representing the Farmers' Party.
In 1933, Quisling left the Farmers' Party and founded the fascist party Nasjonal Samling (National Union). Although he achieved some popularity after his attacks on the political left, his party failed to win any seats in the Storting and by 1940 it was still little more than peripheral. On 9 April 1940, with the German invasion of Norway in progress, he attempted to seize power in the world's first radio-broadcast coup d'état, but failed after the Germans refused to support his government.  From 1942 to 1945 he served as Prime Minister of Norway, heading the Norwegian state administration jointly with the German civilian administrator Josef Terboven. His pro-Nazi puppet government, known as the Quisling regime, was dominated by ministers from Nasjonal Samling. The collaborationist government participated in Germany's genocidal Final Solution. 
Quisling was put on trial during the legal purge in Norway after World War II. He was found guilty of charges including embezzlement, murder and high treason against the Norwegian state, and was sentenced to death. He was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress, Oslo, on 24 October 1945. The word "quisling" became a byword for "collaborator" or "traitor" in several languages, reflecting the contempt with which Quisling's conduct has been regarded, both at the time and since his death.