Quisling
Quisling, Vidkun (1887-1945). Norwegian officer, who served as minister of defence and in 1933 formed the National Union Party, with a strong allegiance to Hitler’s Nazi party. He encouraged the Nazi occupation of Norway in 1940 and was appointed ‘minister president’ by the Nazis in the occupation government, which ordered 1000 Jews to be sent to their deaths in concentration camps. In 1945 he was arrested, tried for war crimes, and executed. His name has become a synonym for ‘traitor’.
