QUISLING, VIDKUN ABRAHAM LAURITZ JONSSØN°
- QUISLING, VIDKUN ABRAHAM LAURITZ JONSSØN°
- QUISLING, VIDKUN ABRAHAM LAURITZ JONSSØN° (1887–1945),
Norwegian who openly met the conquering Nazis as their collaborator;
since he was the first to do so, the British press used his name as the
symbol of all collaborators and traitors during World War
II. Born in Fyresdal (southern province of Telemark),
where his father was a priest, he graduated with distinction from the
military academy of Norway and served as an officer in the General Staff
(1911–18). His special interest in Russia – and his fluent Russian –
brought about his appointment as military attaché to the Soviet Union
and a diplomatic post in Petrograd (St. Petersburg, 1918–19) and
Helsinki (1920–21). He became an assistant to Fridtjof Nansen fighting
starvation in Ukraine in 1922 and after fulfilling humanitarian tasks on
behalf of the League of Nations returned to Norway after Nansen's death
in 1930. In his politics he veered from the Soviet-oriented left to the
fascist right. He was minister of defense in 1931–33 in the government
of the Farmers' Party. In 1933 Quisling founded his own party, Nasjonal
Samling (National Union), which never gained popular support. The Nazi
leaders took an interest in him while the invasion into Norway was
planned, when he was received by Hitler on whom he made a favorable
impression. On the day of the invasion he declared himself prime
minister but was removed six days later by the German authorities, who
installed Josef Terboven as a military police governor. In February 1942
Quisling succeeded in being named prime minister, but although his
influence was nil, he committed enough crimes, including the
preparations for the deportation of the Jews, to be condemned to death
by a Norwegian tribunal in 1945, and was executed on October 24. The
Norwegian government earmarked the mansion in which Quisling lived
during World War II and until his arrest for a Center for Holocaust and
Minorities Studies, comprising a research center and a museum. The
Center is financed by Norwegian Holocaust restitution funds and was
opened in 2006.
(Leni Yahil)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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