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Vidkun Quisling
What is worse than betraying your countrymen? Ruling over them in the name of a foreign oppressor is a good place to start. Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian diplomat and former Minister of Defence, launched a coup to seize control of the Norwegian government during the Nazi Invasion of Norway. His coup, though failed, becoming the first radio-broadcasted coup d'etat in history. In 1945, he became the “Minister-President” of the Quisling Regime, the Nazi’s puppet government in Norway.
Hated and reviled by the people of Norway, a country that had relatively few Nazi collaborators, he was arrested and executed for “carrying out Germany's final solution in Norway”. His name has become synonymous with ‘collaborator’ or ‘traitor’ in both Norwegian and English.
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