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Vidkun Quisling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Quisling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quisling , after Norwegian politician Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany to conquer his own country and ruled the collaborationist Norwegian government, is a term used to describe traitors an...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonsson Quisling (Norwegian politician), Norwegian army officer whose collaboration with the Germans in their occupation of Norway during World War II established his name as a synonym for “traitor. ... Quisling[Credits : Courtesy of the Norwegian News Agency, Oslo]
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Vidkun Quisling is undoubtedly the only Norwegian individual (and among but a small number of individuals regardless of geographic origin) for whom a noun has ... I have discovered that Vidkun Quisling had 2 brothers, Jorgen quisling was a doctor and Arne Quisling i have not found much except he lived in New York for at...
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Quisling, Vidkun (kwiz'ling, Nor. vid'koon kvis'ling) [key], 1887–1945, Norwegian fascist leader. An army officer, he served as military attaché in Petrograd (1918–19) and Helsinki (1919–21) and later assisted Fridtjof Nansen in relief work in Russia.
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Vidkun Quisling was a remarkable person, with visions that only seldom fitted the real life. He had worked together with the famous Frithjof Nansen in Soviet, during the famine in the 1930´s, and had a reputation for being an intelligent, quiet and hard-working man.
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