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Vidkun Quisling
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling 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.
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politics · Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945) · politician · military officer · wartime collaborator · soldier · also Vidkun Quisling, Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling, Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Qvisling, Vidkun Qvisling, Quisling
Born 18 July 1887 · Died 24 October 1945 · Q151364
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2026· 2 entries
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2025· 2 entries
The Diplomat: Vidkun Quisling
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Citing the grave's status as a gathering point for Nazi sympathisers
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2024· 1 entry
BBC: Vidkun Quisling: Norway's traitor
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Vidkun Quisling installed as Nazi puppet premier of Norway
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2020· 1 entry
Daily Express: Vidkun Quisling: Wartime Prime Minister who gave his name to treachery
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1959· 1 entry
His ashes were transferred to his family grave at Gjerpen Church, with approval by the third Gerhardsen cabinet
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1945· 1 entry
Died 1945-10-24.
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1944· 1 entry
The weight problems Quisling had been having during the preceding two years also eased
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1943· 2 entries
And 1944 that the deportees were being held for later resettlement in a planned Jewish territory, sometimes associated with the Madagascar Plan
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And 1944, Nasjonal Samling's position at the head of the collaborationist government, albeit with its ambiguous relationship to the Reichskommissariat, remained formally unchallenged
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1942· 2 entries
Passed 231 laws, 166 in 1943, and 139 in 1944, with social policy remaining one of the areas that still received significant attention
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Career landmark: minister-president (1942–1945).
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1941· 1 entry
Were having the heads of ministries promoted to official ministers of the government, and independence for the party secretariat
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1940· 1 entry
Career landmark: head of government (1940–1940).
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1939· 1 entry
Quisling turned his attention towards Norway's preparations for the anticipated European war, which he believed involved a drastic increase in the country's defence spending to guarantee its neutrality
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1937· 1 entry
Was re-established to assist the Gestapo in Norway, and radio sets were confiscated across the country
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1934· 1 entry
And funding restrictions meant that the enterprise included less than a thousand men before it faded away
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1933· 2 entries
Quisling founded the fascist Nasjonal Samling (National Gathering)
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When they had fielded candidates in only half the districts
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1932· 1 entry
During the Kullmann Affair, Quisling turned on the prime minister for questioning his hard-line stance over pacifist agitator Captain Olaf Kullmann
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1931· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of Defence (1931–1933).
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1929· 2 entries
With the British now keen to take back control of their own diplomatic affairs, he left Russia
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And served as minister of defence in the agrarian governments of Peder Kolstad (1931–1932) and Jens Hundseid (1932–1933)
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1919· 1 entry
Career landmark: secretary of legation (1919).
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1906· 1 entry
To the Norwegian Military College, he graduated with the highest score since the college's inception in 1817, and was rewarded by an audience with Haakon VII, the King of Norway
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1905· 1 entry
Quisling enrolled at the Norwegian Military Academy, having received the highest entrance examination score of the 250 applicants that year
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1900· 1 entry
The family moved to Skien when his father was appointed provost of the city
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1887· 1 entry
Born 1887-07-18.
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