# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vidkun-quisling
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:27:40.662Z

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name: "Vidkun Quisling"
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description: "His surname became the word for traitor. Vidkun Quisling headed Norway's Nazi puppet government during the Second World War, imposed German occupation policy, and sent Norwegian Jews to their deaths — then faced a firing squad in 1945."
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deathDate: "1945-10-24"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Quisling began as a military officer and diplomat, working with Fridtjof Nansen on famine relief in Soviet Russia during 1921 and later managing British affairs in Moscow. He returned to Norway in 1929 and served as minister of defence in two agrarian governments between 1931 and 1933. In 1933 he founded the fascist Nasjonal Samling, which gained no parliamentary seats and remained marginal through the decade. On 9 April 1940, as German forces invaded Norway, he attempted the world's first radio-broadcast coup d'état, but the Germans rejected him in favour of securing the legitimate government's cooperation. By 1 February 1942 they relented: Quisling formed a collaborationist government, ruling jointly with German administrator Josef Terboven, enforcing Nazi policy, and deporting Jews to Polish concentration camps. After liberation he was tried for high treason, embezzlement, and murder, sentenced to death despite that penalty's abolition decades prior, and executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress on 24 October 1945.