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Post by larryc1 on Jan 2, 2024 20:36:40 GMT
'Quisling' is now synonomous with collaborator or traitor in English. He was a Minister of Defense for Norway during part of WW2. He was installed by the Nazis as part of a puppet government. Quisling was instrumental in arranging the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust. The marker is on his war-time mansion'Gimle'. At the end of the war he was tried and convicted of murder and high treason. He was executed by firing squad on October 24, 1945 at Akershus, 3.5 km east of his mansion which is now a Holocaust Centre. Vidkun Quisling.kmz (1.13 KB)
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