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Quisling, Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonsson |
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Quisling, Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonsson (1887-1945)Norwegian politician. Leader from 1933 of the Norwegian Fascist Party, he aided the Nazi invasion of Norway in 1940 by delaying mobilization and urging nonresistance. He was made premier by Hitler in 1942, and was arrested and shot as a traitor by the Norwegians in 1945. His name became a generic term for a traitor who aids an occupying force. |
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