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	Vidkun Quisling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quisling had low popular support, and the Quisling government lasted only five days, after which Josef Terboven was installed as Reichskommissar, the highest official in Norway, reporting directly to Hitler.
		The relationship between Quisling and Terboven was tense, although Terboven, presumably seeing an advantage in having a Norwegian in a position of power to reduce resentment in the population, named Quisling to the post of Minister President in 1942, a position the self-appointed Fører assumed in 1943, on February 1.
		Vidkun Quisling stayed in power until he was arrested May 9, 1945, in a mansion on Bygdøy in Oslo that he called Gimle after the place in Norse mythology where the survivors of Ragnarok were to live.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quisling (677 words)

	Vidkun Quisling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quisling had visited Adolf Hitler in Germany the year before and was liked by Hitler, so Quisling's belief that the Germans would back his government was not entirely unfounded.
		However, Quisling had low popular support, and the Quisling government lasted only five days, after which Josef Terboven was installed as Reichskommissar, the highest official in Norway, reporting directly to Hitler.
		Vidkun Quisling stayed in power until he was arrested May 9, 1945, in a mansion on Bygdøy in Oslo which he called Gimle after the place in Norse mythology where the survivors of Ragnarok were to live.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Vidkun_Quisling (677 words)

	The World at War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quisling was born on July 18, 1887 at Akerhus Fortress, Oslo and is best known for his collaboration with the Germans which established his name as a synonym for "traitor".
		Quisling entered the Norwegian Army in 1911 serving as military attache in Petrograd in 1918-1919 and Helsinki from 1919-1921.
		Quisling's attemps to convert church, schools and youth to National Socialism was strongly resisted by the Norwegians who had a strong sense of themselves and was a total failure.
	www.worldatwar.net /biography/q/quisling (232 words)

	Quisling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonsson Quisling was born in 1887 in Fyresdal, Norway.
		Quisling attended this military school from 1905 to 1908, and was the top of his class.
		Within Norway, Quisling was regarded by the people as a traitor and it was apparent that he could never set up a viable form of government.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/st/~slappen/Quisling.htm (235 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Vidkun Quisling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (July 18, 1887 – October 24, 1945) was the most infamous traitor in the history of Norway.
		Quisling was convicted of high treason and executed by firing squad after the war.
		The term "Quisling" has become a synonym in many European languages, including English, for traitor (see Judas, and the understanding of Benedict Arnold in the United States).
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Vidkun_Quisling (596 words)

	Vidkun Quisling -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (July 18, 1887 – October 24, 1945) was the most infamous (Someone who betrays his country by committing treason) traitor in the history of (A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905) Norway.
		Quisling was convicted of (A crime that undermines the offender's government) high treason and (Click link for more info and facts about executed by firing squad) executed by firing squad after the war.
		However, Quisling had low popular support, and the Quisling government lasted only five days, after which (Click link for more info and facts about Josef Terboven) Josef Terboven was installed as (Click link for more info and facts about Reichskommissar) Reichskommissar, the highest official in Norway, reporting directly to Hitler.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vidkun_quisling.htm (491 words)

	The Avalon Project : Nazi Conspriracy and Aggression Volume 3
		When in 1939 the general political situation was beginning to grow critical Quisling gave the Office of Foreign Relations an estimate of the situation and his opinion about the possible intentions of Great Britain with relation to Scandinavia in case of conflict (Great Britain's) with the German Reich.
		He (Quisling) pointed out the decisive geopolitical importance of Norway in the Scandinavian region and the advantages gained by the Power in control of the Norwegian coast in case of conflict between the German Reich and Great Britain.
		Quisling always emphasised that more than 90% of the country was behind England and that he only represented a minority which, however, was chosen by virtue of its intuition to take charge later on as representatives of a new Norwegian nation.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/document/004-ps.htm (2849 words)

	Vidkun Quisling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quisling was tried for high treason and execution by firing squadexecuted by firing squad/ after the war.
		When Operation WeserübungGermany invaded Norway on April 9 1940, Quisling became the first person in history to announce a coup d'etatcoup during a news broadcast, declaring an ad-hoc government during the confusion of the invasion, hoping that the Germans would support it.
		Quisling, along with two other Nasjonal Samling leaders, Albert Viljam Hagelin and Ragnar Skancke, were convicted and execution by firing squadexecuted by firing squad/.
	www.infothis.com /find/Vidkun_Quisling (541 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alas, while Quisling had achieved some fame in Norway (mostly for his work in the Soviet Union during the 1930s famine and for his stint as Minister of Defense in 1931-33) and had a reputation as a hard-working intellectual, few Norwegians were ready to follow him down the road to dictatorship.
		Quisling tried to organize Norwegian forces to work with the Germans, but received only lukewarm support from the Germans and active hostility and sabatoge from his fellow Norwegians.
		Quisling faced strikes, boycotts, an illegal press, and the establishment of escape routes: his efforts to deport Jews were met with open protests in Norway's churches.
	home.earthlink.net /~maxcoa/Hybrid/2003/Nov2003/quisling.html (783 words)

	Encyclopedia: Vidkun Quisling
		Vidkun Quisling The copyright status of this old image is undetermined; it may still be copyrighted.
		The term "quisling" has become a synonym in some European languages, including English and Norwegian, for traitor, particularly one who collaborates with invaders.
		Norwegian resistance to the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945 took several forms: Asserting the legitimacy of the exiled Norwegian government, and by implication the lack of legitimacy of the Quisling regime and Terboven administration The initial defense in Southern Norway, which was largely disorganized, but...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vidkun-Quisling (2291 words)

	Vidkun Quisling -- Norway's Benedict Arnold
		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.
		The Germans installed Quisling as prime minister in 1942 and throughout the war he collaborated with the Nazis.
		Quisling was tried and executed after the war.
	www.mnc.net /norway/quisling.htm (308 words)

	Political Dictionary Q-R (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For example, during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, President John Kennedy gave a personal (although not official) pledge that the crisis could be defused by a quid pro quo: If the Russians removed their missiles from Cuba, the U.S. would within a few months remove its own missiles from Turkey.
		quisling - a traitor or collaborator, after Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian who was a Nazi sympathizer and revealed state secrets about Norwegian defenses to German agents in 1940, six days before the German occupation of Norway began in World War II.
		Quisling served as a puppet prime minster during the war; he was executed in 1945.
	www.fast-times.com /dictionaryq-r.html (1884 words)

	Norwegian Collaborationist Forces during WWII
		Quisling continued to serve as the leader of the NS party after his initial removal from office in 1940, as the National Union was the only political party allowed in Norway after the Germans invaded.
		Quisling attempted to undermine Terbovens attempt at forming a Norwegian branch of the Germanic SS, and Terboven attempted to undermine Quislings National Union party and his overall control of Norway.
		Quisling was a soldier by profession, and while aiding a famous Norwegian explorer on famine relief in Russia in the early 1920s, he acted as the Norwegian diplomatic representative to Russia.
	www.feldgrau.com /a-norway.html (2132 words)

	Med Quisling For Det Nye Norge: (no subject)
		Vidkun Quisling was a bad guy, and when he was executed, everybody where happy, and the times where good.
		Quisling and his government : revolutionized Norway in a way that : had not been done since its prior : occupation by Sweden.
		Vidkun Quisling was a bad : guy, and when he was executed, : everybody where happy, and the times : where good.
	members.boardhost.com /quisling/msg/548.html (329 words)

	Celsius Centre for Scandinavian Studies
		Quisling actively encouraged Norwegians to become involved in the war on the German side, believing that Germany's victory was in fact Norway's victory.
		Raeder had said that Quisling had made a trustworthy impression but had to be dealt with cautiously since he might only be attempting to further his own interests it was clear that the German's had their own agenda, and Quisling didn't figure in their plans.
		The paradoxical element of the Quisling episode, was that he at all times believed he was being true to his vision, and that he was operating for the good of Norway and the Nordic race as a whole.
	www.ssn.flinders.edu.au /scanlink/nornotes/vol2/articles/hurquis.html (2001 words)

	Vidkin Quisling Biography / Biography of Vidkin Quisling Biography Biography
		Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945) served as the prime minister of Norway during the German occupation, from 1940 to 1945.
		Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonsson Quisling, whose name became synonymous with the word traitor, was born in Fyresdal, Norway on July 18, 1887 to Jon Lauritz (a priest) and Anna Caroline Bang Quisling.
		Quisling graduated from the military academy with the highest grades ever achieved there, earning him a presentation to the king.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-vidkin-quisling (230 words)

	QUISLING
		Much to the dismay of the Norwegian race, Quisling was deposed after Germany's defeat.
		Quisling and his government revolutionized Norway in a way that had not been done since its prior occupation by Sweden.
		Formed in Madison, Wisconsin, Quisling's music is best described as "ecclectic noise rock" in the vein of too many predecessors to name.
	www.devo.com /quisling/history.html (191 words)

	This is a list of the ministers in Vidkun Quisling´s government of the 1st of February 1942 when Quisling was ...
		In Quisling´s first government in April 1940 he was minister of Agriculture and on the 23rd of September the same year he was commissioned as Minister of Labour.
		When Vidkun Quisling formed the new national government of the 1st of February 1942 the general secretary was appointed minister of the Party.
		He was a minister in Quisling´s first government and later, from October 1940, he was governor of South Tröndelag county, till Quisling appointed him as minister of finance in February 1942.
	www.nasjonalsamling.com /quislingsgoverment.htm (1762 words)

	Black Triangle » Blog Archive » Quisling and Haw Haw
		Quisling is a word you didn’t hear very often, but has come back into the modern political lexicon.
		The word quisling means a person who is a traitor to their country or collaborates with their country’s enemies.
		Quisling’s coup was intended to see he and his followers (plus a suspiciously large number of German “Tourists”) in charge, who would then invite in the German army.
	www.blacktriangle.org /blog/index.php?p=1068 (849 words)

	Vidkun Quisling
		However, the Germans desired more direct control over occupied Norway, and the Quisling government lasted only five days, after which Josef Terboven was installed as Reichskommissar, the highest authority in Norway, answering directly to Hitler.
		In later days these sentences have been controversial, as Quisling's participation was completely insignificant to the situation of Norway in WW2.
		After World War II, the term "quisling" became a synonym in many European languages for traitor (see Judas, and the understanding of Benedict Arnold in the United States).
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/v/vi/vidkun_quisling.shtml (585 words)

	Quisling - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The word ‘Quisling’ is used all over the world as a synonym for ‘traitor’ or ‘treachery’.
		Quisling’s coup d’état in Oslo on 9 April 1940 was immediately denounced as an act of arch-treason, and even Churchill spoke of ‘the vile race of Quislings’.
		He traces Quisling’s ultimately futile career from his earlier internationalist career as a diplomat and businessman to the drama of his trial and execution for high treason in 1945.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521496977 (264 words)

	Vidkun Quisling
		Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian politician and officer, commonly known as one of World War II's most infamous traitors.
		However, Quisling had little popular support, and the Quisling government lasted only five days, after which Josef Terboven was installed as Reichskommissar (Commissioner), the highest authority in Norway, reporting directly to Hitler.
		In later days, these sentences have been controversial, since the capital punishment was reintroduced to the Norwegian legal system during the end of the war, by the exile government, to handle the postwar trials.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Quisling.html (558 words)

	Quisling's Home Becomes Research Center (phillyBurbs.com)
		OSLO, Norway - The imposing mansion used by the Norwegian Nazi-collaborator Vidkun Quisling during World War II was turned over Tuesday to a research center focusing on the Holocaust and the persecution of minorities.
		Quisling was executed at the end of the war for setting up a puppet government that collaborated with German occupation forces.
		During the Quisling years, about one-third of Norway's prewar community of 2,100 Jews died in the Holocaust and much of their property was stolen.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/89-08302005-534617.html (266 words)

	Vidkun Quisling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonsson Quisling, (July 18, 1887 - October 24, 1945) was a Norwegian nationalist leader and patriot who was tried for treason and murdered in 1945.
		The party turned more extremist, taking on sect-like qualities in the worship of Quisling as the leader, and party membership dwindled to an estimated 2000 members in 1940.
		Quisling had visited Adolf Hitler in Germany the year before, and had actually presented the idea of a German invasion of Norway, so Quisling's belief that the Germans would back his government were not entirely unfounded.
	www.city-search.org /vi/vidkun-quisling.html (576 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Quisling home becomes Holocaust centre
		Since the end of the war Quisling's imposing 46-room mansion, called the Villa Grande, has been used by the local authority as a hospital, nursing home and school.
		Quisling was executed at the end of the war for his collaboration with the German occupation forces and his name remains a synonym for traitor.
		During the Quisling years, about one-third of Norway's prewar community of 2,100 Jews died under Nazi persecution and much of their property was stolen.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1082000/1082427.stm (231 words)

	Nasjonal Samling - The Governments
		Quisling often even stated that he had inspired Hitler to crate his ideology, since Quisling had created his political philosophy as early as in 1917-18.
		The first ad hoc government, which Quisling suprisingly announced on the chaotic day of 9th April 1940, came as a surprise, and the statement shocked both the Germans as the Norwegian population.
		Quisling never impressed the Germans, but had some support too: Alfred Rosenberg was enthusiastic about him, and prominent members of the German Navy, like Admiral Raeder also supported Quisling.
	www.nuav.net /ns.html (1751 words)

	Dotore Quisling: A Study in Evil
		Quisling's arrogance is so much that he insolently demands that Agnelo Gomes give up Goan nationalism and become a traitor like him, failing which, "you are likely to lend in the Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour."
		Quisling betrays that he was no sincere revolutionary, but merely a traitor for the sake of money and position, when he speaks as an elitist:
		May he and his illgotten shekels, these Ganthi Dotore Quislings, their blood-money, be cursed, they and their accursed spawn, for all generations, and may they take their polluting carcasses out of our beloved motherland into their foul India.
	www.geocities.com /prakashjm45/dotorequisling.html (3120 words)

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