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| | Vidkun Quisling - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Quisling had a mixed and relatively successful background, having achieved the rank of major in the Norwegian army, and worked with Fridtjof Nansen in the Soviet Union during the famine in the 1930s, as well as having served as defense minister in the agrarian government 1931-1933. |
 | | On May 17, 1933, the Norwegian national day, Quisling and state attorney Johan Bernhard Hjort[?] formed Nasjonal Samling (National Unity), the Norwegian national-socialist party. |
 | | However, as the party line changed from a religiously rooted one to a more pro-German and anti-Semitic hardline policy from 1935 onwards, the support from the Church waned, and in the 1936 elections, the party only got 26577 votes. |
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