Execution of Vidkun Quisling - History's Most Infamous TRAITOR who Sold his Country to the NAZIS

Vidkun Quisling was born on July 18, 1887, in Fyresdal in southern Norway. His father Jon Lauritz Quisling was a Lutheran minister and genealogist and Vidkun’s mother Anna Caroline Bang came from a wealthy family in Grimstad in Norway.
In 1905, then the 18-year-old Vidkun Quisling entered the War College. Of the 250 cadets, he had achieved the highest score on the notoriously difficult entrance exams. From the War College, Quisling entered the Military Academy to pursue a career in the army. Vidkun Quisling graduated with the best grades in the history of the Academy since its founding in 1817 and the King of Norway rewarded him by inviting the young Vidkun to an audience with him.
In 1911, Quisling joined the General Staff of the Norwegian Army. 3 years later on the 28th of July 1914, the First World War began. During the war, Norway was neutral. Quisling detested the peace movement, though the high human cost of the war did temper his views.
In March 1918, he was sent to Russia as an attaché at the Norwegian legation in Petrograd. Though dismayed at the living conditions he experienced, Quisling nonetheless concluded that "the Bolsheviks have got an extraordinarily strong hold on Russian society" and marvelled at how Leon Trotsky had managed to mobilise the Red Army forces so well.
He asserted that by contrast, in granting too many rights to the people of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government under Alexander Kerensky had brought about its own downfall. When the legation was recalled in December 1918, Quisling became the Norwegian military's expert on Russian affairs.
In September 1919, Quisling departed Norway to become an intelligence officer with the Norwegian delegation in Helsinki in Finland, a post that combined diplomacy and politics and in January 1922 he arrived in the Ukrainian capital Kharkiv to help with the League of Nations humanitarian relief effort there.
In august of the same year, he married the Russian Alexandra Andreevna Voronina. It appeared that there was no romantic involvement between the two and it is believed that Quisling merely seemed to have wanted to lift the girl out of poverty by providing her with a Norwegian passport and financial security
Soon, he met Maria Vasiljevna Pasetchnikova, a Ukrainian more than ten years his junior. The couple behaved as though they were married, claimed Alexandra was their daughter, and celebrated their wedding anniversary.
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[@Opedanderson]

My father escaped to England to fight in the RAF but his father, my grandfather, joined the Nasjonal Samling which was Quislings party. My fathers best friend died on the Russian front fighting in a SS Unit. WW2 and Quislings betrayal had more support than Norwegians want to admit today and it drove a wedge through many families that took 2 generations to even come close to healing 😢

[@reicherosterreicher3486]

@Opedanderson Respect on your Grandfather , sry but your father made the wrong decision . But anyway , i respect him as well . My Grandma was stationed in Tromsø as a Radar Observer . ( women auxillary corps of ' 'Nachrichtenhelferin' or so called "Blitzmädchen" , because of their Wrist patch ,from 1943-45 ). She 's told about the almost shy ,but friendly norwegians. So I think its the best that there was never ,in war or peace hate between our related people. 🇦🇹🎗🇳🇴

[@user-ox7xr8nu4t]

The only ones who betrayed Norway were the ones seeking help from London.

[@reicherosterreicher3486]

@@user-ox7xr8nu4t you're completely right thank you 🫡

[@skunkjobb]

@@user-ox7xr8nu4t No, seeking help to get rid of an occupational force is not betrayal.

[@lundsweden]

​@@reicherosterreicher3486 Are you for real? You're pro the German Nazi occupation and Quisling's treachery? Thank God they lost and Quisling got the rope!

[@skn9895]

My great-grandparents emigrated from Norway to America in the early 1900's, but always intended to retire there. They made several trips to Norway and eventually bought a house in Sogn og Fjord in the village of Hyllestad. This was to be their retirement home. However the war put an end to those plans, and they were never able to return to Norway. Once the Germans found out that the home was owned by Americans, it was seized and used as a headquarters for the German division stationed there. The house had a spectacular view of the fjord. Sadly, my Great-grandfather passed in 1944, so he was never able to return to his beloved Norway. My Great-grandmother lived to the age of 94 and did return to Norway several more times, but never to live there. She now had more family in America than in Norway, so she decided that America was indeed now "home." I was fortunate enough to have visited the house in 1984 on a visit to Norway. It is still owned by my extended family.

[@Cas_anova]

I rent an appartment in The Netherlands. It has a decent view of the street. Got germans living next door. They seem nice but their bbq stinks of sausage and beer. My great grandparents are dead.

[@TheDigitalApple]

A traitor so famous, his last name is used as an insult.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Exactly. Such a shame ...

[@gerhardschelbi8742]

Not in Europa

[@RevLeigh55]

Quisling and Benedict Arnold.

[@Xydorf]

​@@gerhardschelbi8742yes it is!

[@t.b.g.504]

Used towards those who a progressive merely disagrees with! Just like using 'racist' and 'fascist' to shut down a debate. (There was once a mentally unstable lefty in London Ontario in the late 1990s highly publicised by The Toronto Star called Karen Mundy who had a psychotic hate on for premier Mike Harris and slurred anyone who supported Conservatives this way.)

[@alexstrachan2160]

My mother was in the courtroom when Quisling was condemned to death. She was part of RAF intelligence and trained with Norwegian commandos at a camp in the north east Scotland. She was then a Scottish based radio operator for those agents. Mum was taken to Norway when the German's surrendered and was there for about a year. We have a coffee cup made in Norway with a swastika on it that mum brought back and lots of photos of her skiing with the Norwegian forces. She also copied a letter from the intelligence files from the Quisling to Hitler. My daughter used it in a school history essay on Hitler and got a very good mark. Mum and a number of other women in RAF intelligence were all given beautiful dinner services from the King of Norway as a thank-you for their services. My sister has that today. Mum never talked much about her role in that war and what I know was gleaned from many, many questions over many years. A lot of her friends were executed and tortured. She just said to me, "when the Quisling was condemned to death, she was delighted."

[@user-xt3be8tu8t]

Very interesting!

[@bimble7240]

Do you think this might have been an SOE operation?

[@user-ox7xr8nu4t]

"The" Quisling?

[@user-ox7xr8nu4t]

@@DemonWarp65 She was a traitor, not Quisling.

[@DemonWarp65]

I'm sorry, are you defending Quisling? The Nazi collaborator? Are you high or something?@@user-ox7xr8nu4t

[@davidharris4062]

My uncle took part in the liberation of Norway, a family in Oslo, looked after him while he was there, Elna Bjork kept in touch with my mother and sent me birthday and Christmas presents until she passed away in the 1980’s, my family always had and still have the utmost respect for the Norwegian people

[@christopher9727]

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[@triciajohansen7124]

@@thespammerhammer AMEN🙏❤

[@reicherosterreicher3486]

@@thespammerhammer you are completely in the dark

[@reicherosterreicher3486]

@davidharris4062 What "Liberation" ????🙈🙈🙈

[@flyzart8148]

@@reicherosterreicher3486 I suppose he means that his uncle was part of British Commandos in Norway

[@craigkdillon]

As a child, I heard the word "Quisling" used as an insult. By its use, I could tell it was a horrible insult, and meant cowardice and betrayal. However, I didn't know it was a person's name. I thought it was a verb -- "to quisle", and quisling was someone who quisles. LOL

[@Larrymh07]

I had a similar experience with the word, Bolshevik. My Mum's side of the family was Polish.

[@daleanddelld6805]

My god don't you people study history in school?

[@Larrymh07]

@@daleanddelld6805 Uh, yeah but education is a process. I suppose you knew everything right out of the womb.

[@craigkdillon]

@@daleanddelld6805 I said "as a child". Can't you read??

[@Minalkra]

@@daleanddelld6805 Those who admit ignorance but who strive to grow their knowledge are show true intelligence. Those who use their knowledge to belittle and insult those seeking knowledge are nothing more than bullies.

[@davey7452]

Interesting fact Norway had abolished capital punishment before the war after liberation and Quislings arrest the Norwegian government reinstated capital punishment Quisling was tried,found guilty and sentenced to death after he was hanged the government immediately abolished it again.

[@stewatparkpark2933]

17:58 - Shot ?

[@davey7452]

Correction he was shot.

[@peterschutzek325]

​@@stewatparkpark2933 Yes. But that is beside the point, isn't it?

[@poonoi1968]

Norway executed 25 Norwegians and 12 foreign nationals in our reckoning after the war, not only Quisling. The last execution was carried out in august 1948. Although the death penalty was abolished in 1902 in civil cases, Norway didn't actually completely abolish capital punishment until 1979

[@stewatparkpark2933]

@@peterschutzek325 Depends on how much you value accuracy in regards to historical events .

[@barelyasurvivor1257]

I knew a lot of this from many, many years ago, but seeing it all together was very interesting. very well done video.

[@KolyaNickD]

My grandmother met Vidkun Quisling in 1929 when he worked in the Norwegian consulate in St Petersburg. They had agreed to carry out some diplomatic services on behalf of the UK after Britain and Russia broke off relations. Said he was polite and helpfull, if nothing else..

[@Opedanderson]

Quisling was praised for his work during the Ukraine famine

[@SnakeKoRn]

Helpful * (but I understand why you'd make this mistake)

[@thepagan5432]

Quisling was not trying to help Norway, he was looking out for himself. He craved power and saw Hitler as a means to an end, he picked the wrong side and paid for his treachery with his life. Every country had their traitors, but Quisling was the the highest serving one.

[@raybarry4307]

I disagree. Like Hitler, we may remember him as a racist and a political extremist, and rightfully so, but that doesn't mean that he didn't genuinely think he was doing the right thing.

[@IbnRiza]

If only the real world is as black and white as your fantasy.

[@thepagan5432]

@@raybarry4307 Most of these tyrannical rulers think they are right, but as time goes by the support for them dwindles. They hang on to power through fear, which is how this type of ruler stays in power for such a long time. There are always those that will align themselves with them so they may benefit from the tyrants power. History is full of them.

[@Endurancesportsafter70ye-bi6fk]

@@thepagan5432 According to the video, he was nothing but a puppet for the Nazis had no support to the rank and file as his party never achieved more than 1-2% during the elections.

[@stischer47]

@@raybarry4307 LOL, Pol Pot thought he was doing the right thing when he committed genocide on his own people, Stalin thought he was doing the right thing by causing the Holodomor, Hitler thought he was doing the right thing by killing the Jews (and many others). So, that excuses actions?

[@magnuslauglo5356]

Part Norwegian here, thank you for this - I learned a lot about Quisling that isn't common knowledge within Norway and perhaps has been intentionally muffled since the war. Like, I had no idea at all that he was the star officer of the Norwegian army, pre WWI. I think the reality is that the support for the Nazis was more commonplace in Norway than we like to acknowledge. Part of this would have been due to Nazis being seen as the lesser evil compared to the Communists - there were certainly Norwegians who went to Finland to fight there alongside the Finns before WWII reached Norway. While some of them (such as resistance hero Max Manus) would return to Norway to fight the Germans, others would have had their anti Soviet sentiments honed fighting there, and chosen the other side.

[@peterhoulihan9766]

It wasn't just because they were seen as a "lesser evil" it was because they were seen as good. This is unimaginable to modern europeans who have been brought up with stories painting them as inhuman demons, but the reality is that there were a lot of problems in the 1930s and they were the only ones fixing them.

[@Engie_Boi]

Part norwegian? Please, just admit you’re an (insert nationality here) with norwegian ancestry, I’m tired of people (mostly americans) going «oh yeah I’m a quarter irish on my mother’s side and a little bit dutch and german, and 24% norwegian on my father’s side» PS: I’m norwegian

[@magnuslauglo5356]

@@Engie_Boi Jeg er norsk statsborger, har bodd der i ni aar, og er i Oslo minst en gang i aaret paa besoek hos families og venner. Jeg var i militaeret der paa 90 tallet, og i Garden ble vi en gang vist stedet der Quisling ble henrettet paa Slottet. Hverken paa skolen eller i militaeret laerte vi saa mye om nordmennene som valgte feil side. Det var iallfall ingen diskusjon om hvorfor de gjorde det.

[@Engie_Boi]

@@magnuslauglo5356 I så fall beklager jeg virkelig, jeg mente ikke å virke så uvennlig :) Men det er altfor mange folk som er slik som eksempelet mitt

[@petergibson2318]

@@Engie_Boi We get that a lot in Ireland. Visiting Americans saying they are "One16th Irish", even if their name is Von Schneider. But they mean no harm. They are just trying to connect to their families who left Ireland centuries ago.

[@fritzbasset8645]

Always remember the heroic Haakon VII and his refusal, at his own peril, to betray Norway to Quisling and the Nazis. Sometimes monarchs are made of the right stuff.

[@billfarley9167]

Especially Denmark.

[@petergibson2318]

Dont forget Monarchs don't belong to any country. Royals marry other Royals from all around Europe and they are all related. The British Monarchy changed its name from "Saxe-Coburg und Gotha" to "Windsor" in 1917 because their name sounded too German. Windsor was just the name of the castle they lived in up until 1917. ( At the same time the Aristocratic Battenberg family changed their name to "Mountbatten"... but.... they forgot to change the name of the Battenberg Cake named after them.)

[@dgray3771]

Seems like after the war they all wanted to be seen in the same light as the king of Denmark. But the king of Denmark openly put up his middle finger to the nazi regime. All these guys like Quisling, Petain, and Mussert did was lick boots and kiss the hand that was feeding them. And after the war, they acted as if the country's best interest was at heart.

[@LouiseAndersen1991]

Not to mention, Denmark took a whole other route than Norway. Denmark "accepted" the german invasion, and it took 3 years before the tide changed.

[@Bustefaen]

Norwegian historian of war here. Congratulations on this short documentary. Well done! A couple of things could have been mentioned: Quisling’s role in aiding Ukraine during the holodomor by being Nansen’s second in command, his subsequent status as a polygamist, and that Churchill himself helped popularize the term «quisling» because it sounded like the sound a snake would make! PS: While the polar explorers Nansen and to a lesser degree Amundsen are still very much national heroes in Norway, the same cannot be said of Saint Olaf. In one of the world’s most secular countries, he is now largely seen as a somewhat tragic and unsuccessful viking king made holy after his death for political purposes (some Christians may disagree, of course).

[@louise_rose]

Quisling was actually Hitler's initial pick - the guy he wanted to become the new Norwegian PM - already at the time of the invasion on April 9 (as shown in the excellent Norwegian historical film "The King's No"), but he was unable to fully grab the reins back then and was sidelined by the German procurator Terboven.

[@Komotau4691]

@@louise_rose Sorry to blow your bubble because you saw some movie but Hitler never liked Quisling so much. He saw him as weak figure and also his party. Quisling actually wanted his attention many times. Only reason he was in charge in Norway because nobody really was into that ideology or cooperate on that level. Hitler actually more liked Petain who wasnt nazi or fascist at all than a Quisling.

[@norwegianboyee]

@@Komotau4691 Quisling was a useful idiot and nothing more. Pretty sad when even the occupiers he tried to weasel to didn't like him.

[@metapolitikgedanken612]

"Norwegian historian of war here." Now how did Norway get dragged into war? It isn't that the German/Axis invasion, just came by itself. There was already British activity going on in Norwegian waters with the consent of the Norwegian government.

[@Bustefaen]

@@metapolitikgedanken612 There was certainly British activity going on in Norwegian waters, but it was not with the consent of the Norwegian government. One of the last actions of the Norwegian government before the German invasion was actually a formal protest to the British for the laying of mines along the Norwegian coast. It was feared that this, along with other British intrusions, would bring Norway into the war - which indeed proved to be the case.

[@repomannv]

Quisling wanted to be judged by history... and he most certainly has been.

[@moosecat]

Like most madmen...NOT the way he thought he would be judged.

[@misterwhipple2870]

You should always be careful what you wish for.

[@truxton1000]

Well he contributed to the fact that the communists was stopped only half way into Europe so….

[@Pippie5555]

Cannot wait for Putin to be judged the same way.

[@truxton1000]

@@Pippie5555 Well Putin does not let the enemy in, but the opposite….

[@TomFynn]

If you haven't done, you absolutely should do a documentary on Gunnar Sønsteby, Norwegian resistance leader and three times winner of Norway's heightest military decoration. In Oslo there is a statue of him, leaning against a bike. Why? Because he had so many aliases that he could cycle round Oslo and the Gestapo, try as they might, never caught him.

[@kjellg6532]

The bike because as the Germans marched down the Main Street, Karl Johan, on the 9th of april 1940 Mr Sønsteby stood at the walkway with is bike.

[@TomFynn]

@@kjellg6532 I absolutely love tidbits like that. Thank you.

[@landsea7332]

Think there is a movie or documentary called No. 24 which is about Gunnar Sonsteby . Its scheduled to be released in Oct 2024 . .

[@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b]

I just watched the King's Choice, pretty good! Made me want to watch this video, thanks for posting.

[@KohalaLover]

No tears shed for the Norwegian traitor. Thank you World History.

[@syntric]

He had a wife and probably family, they would have loved him and shed tears. He was human just like you and me, these people aren't monsters

[@bobtaylor170]

​@@syntricthe awfulness of it is that they are human monsters. If you're ever the victim of an evil person, and I have been on three occasions in my life, you'll understand that.

[@KohalaLover]

@@syntric “Just like you and me”?! No, not true He collaborated with the enemy, Germany, was a murderer and a traitor. Convicted of high treason. You don’t have much of a moral compass, it seems.

[@peterschutzek325]

@@KohalaLover Still a human being. And that is what upsets you.

[@KohalaLover]

@@peterschutzek325 My heroes don’t murder, embezzle, or betray. My heroes have compassion, mercy, decency, and kindness. We are all not the same.

[@Thecaptainblackadder]

This episode was captivating. I was eagerly waiting for the last sentence of the video.

[@ccrider3435]

Imagine betraying your country, your government, your family, your friends, your neighbors, your culture and your future for a maniac/lunatic dictator.

[@gowdsake7103]

UMMM Trump, Blair, Bush, Belersconi

[@patrickclune3600]

Biden, Pelosi, Harris, Schumer to start with, let another million or two in. Sold us out today just like Benedict Arnold did then

[@freddy8479]

​@@patrickclune3600 add BENJAMIN "BIBI" NETANYAHU TO THE LIST!!

[@davead6578]

Add Trudeau to the list. Big Time.

[@user-fo5qx7xb7s]

If only we had Trump, Bibi and PiPi as leaders...we would enter a new Eden where the uneducated would rule.

[@gavanwhatever8196]

My nephew's grandmother's family were from Hammerfest and emigrated to Australia after the war as they had lost everything. They had nothing nice to say about the Germans.

[@kenhmful]

I'm from Hammerfest, never heard enyone of the older generation have any good to say about the Nazies. I knew one arested by the gestapo and tortured, he said it wasnt the gestapo who was the worst, but locals norwegian nazis who he called his naboers working for the gestapo..

[@blabberer8950]

Compared to the Bolsheviks, the Nazis were like the 2nd coming of Christ.

[@evilborg]

I know that the Norwegian people have sentenced me to death, and that the easiest course for me would be to take my own life. But I want to let history reach its own verdict. Believe me, in ten years' time I will have become another Saint Olav. - Quisling to Bjørn Foss, 8 May 1945 78 years later and he is still known for being a traitor.... that's a historical fact.

[@GoCoyote]

Quisling, Saint of traitors!

[@bobtaylor170]

Shortly after Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty, he realized that if the British Navy could block the narrow strait leading to the North Sea, they could blockade the Kriegsmarine and win the war swiftly. All of the Cabinet was excited by this possibility until they, and Churchill, realized that the RAF at that time wouldn't have been strong enough to fight off Luftwaffe attacks on the blockade.

[@kenneth9874]

Too bad they didn't realize that lack of air supremacy was a recipe for disaster for landings as well...

[@ccrider3435]

Now, Norwegian Ships have barcodes on the sides of them. To Scandinavian.

[@MarciaBaker1205]

Always an important history lesson. Thank you.

[@IbnRiza]

Always remain skeptical whenever history is presented in black and white narrative. The real world never works in such a way.

[@ColinH1973]

Wonderful to see the same clips repeated on a loop countless times, just to ensure that the viewer doesn't miss anything. How thoughtful is that!

[@robjkenyon]

So sad the late, great Norm MacDonald didn't get to see this before losing his cowardly battle with cancer.

[@robjkenyon]

Sorry @Colinh1973. This wasn't meant specifically for you.

[@brucefelger4015]

The only traitors name not usually capitalized when in use.

[@roaropgard8575]

Thank you for the story

[@davidbradshaw3107]

A traitor so famous, his name means traitor.

[@tarmbruster1]

He actually thought he was the smartest man in the room... his down fall.

[@aussiedeplorable8670]

The smartest person doesn’t always win the chocolates.

[@strombouts]

Like Drumph.

[@willkittwk]

Pride cometh before the fall

[@willkittwk]

​@@stromboutsTrump is a true American patriot. Biden wants to hand America and the West over to the communist and social degenerates.

[@robertthomas3777]

Hubris.

[@johannesnicolaas]

Even in my country Holland, the word Quisling meant you are a despictable traitor.

[@taand4725]

The Netherlands, not Holland

[@mariolasanda8116]

great video!

[@reneedennis2011]

Thank you for this video.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you for watching our videos. Greetings

[@reneedennis2011]

@@WorldHistoryVideos Thank you, and you're welcome 😊. Greetings.

[@harryviking6347]

In Norway we call a traitor : "Quisling" , after the name of the biggest traitor ever!

[@Concussed1.]

I learned about him when I was in Norway as a kid. Nobody had anything nice to say about him.

[@roaropgard8575]

I have no tears to shed for Vidkun Quisling But i shed tears for the victims 😭😭

[@INSANESUICIDE]

Then you did not learn about him, you were merely taught to hate him. Look at his early years, look at his track record and history before 1940 and tell me he was not an accomplished and intelligent man.

[@DunedinMultimedia2]

@@INSANESUICIDE He was not an accomplished nor was he an intelligent man.

[@INSANESUICIDE]

@@DunedinMultimedia2 Scored top of his class, worked to aid Ukrainians during the Holodomor, just two minor things that happened during his life. You have no clue about this man, yet you make an absolute statement out of ignorance. Research his life and come back and repeat that he was without accomplishment or intelligence, then maybe you will disprove your blatant lack of intellect.

[@user-ox7xr8nu4t]

​@@roaropgard8575Shed tears for the victims of open borders.

[@bobbyricigliano2799]

The cut in photos and descriptions of innocent Norwegian Jews who were deported and murdered under quisling's rule make a powerful impact. Excellent documentary of an awful period of history.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you

[@pererlingjohansen6597]

Till this day both Quisling and Rinnan are hated here.

[@peterhoulihan9766]

Yes. History is written by the victors, and the victors have declared that they guys who lost were the bad guys. Back at the time of course there were plenty of people who loved him: Otherwise he could not have ruled.

[@glacieractivity]

@@peterhoulihan9766 This is perhaps the most insane thing I have seen written on KZbin by implication by any kid that has written insane things on the internet. I guess kids these days have a "let us overthrow democracy" idea about democracy. "NS" in Norway during the election of 1936 got 1.41% of the votes - just the kind of numbers that fascists love as you grab for totalitarianism. In the regional elections during 1937 he got 1422 votes in total (0.06% of total votes). And this was before WW2 made victors and losers in history. Kids must learn that being unpopular is usually a good assessment of stuff until you start to hang out on 4chan and stop studying. During one of the most interesting times of my life, I was working my ass off in a former East German town outside Berlin in the late 1990s. These dudes were super-hyped about me representing Norwegians, "arians", death-metal musicians who burned down 1000-year-old stave churches, and murdered immigrants - you get the gist of these neo-nazi. They were not happy about my answers. It would be best to stop this "little guy is right" idea. A little guy feeling left by society or family or girlfriend (insert stuff here) is usually the next person who will embrace mass murder to prove a point. Quisling peaked in actual free elections at 1.4% - before dropping in popularity quite a lot. Since then we got an "A.B." in Norway who wrote a whole thesis about himself relieving the Royals and the Norwegian parliament as the new rules of "Arians" before going on one of the worst political murdering sprees of children known outside Star Wars due to insane ideas about "popularity" picked up on the internet. Fascists are going to fascism, I guess you feel angry that only a per cent love their killing-of-everyone-who-isagrees-ideas makes them slightly less popular. Pick your friends with wisdom (from a person who grew up with my grand-uncle being tortured into insanity by your fellow fascist, his neighbour who adored Quisling and Rinnan by placing him on the cooking stoves in my grand-grand parent's cafe. Do you really think that this act would be right if "your regime" had won WW2 in your illiterate idea of history? OK - prepare to live your life with a 0.06% approval rating. Try sharing some care and love, however, and I promise you that your approval rating will instantly jump above 50%

[@magnusk9724]

@@peterhoulihan9766 He did not rule and he was not loved by very many people. You could at least watch this documentary and read a bit before you comment.

[@toadwine7654]

@@peterhoulihan9766 wtf. you think plenty of people loved saddam? stalin, hitler? you are just showing how absolutely astonishingly little you understand of the world around you

[@peterhoulihan9766]

@@toadwine7654 Saddam and Hitler? Quite a lot of people, yes. Stalin not so much. It sounds like you get your understanding of the world around you from your TV.

[@MrSmiley1964]

I'm familiar with the term Quisling, and it's meaning. But until now I had no idea of it's origins. Thank you for the History Lesson and what can only be a useful bit of trivia as well. No tears shed for ANY treasonous SOB!

[@user-ox7xr8nu4t]

The only ones who betrayed Norway were the ones seeking help from London.

[@MrSmiley1964]

@@user-ox7xr8nu4tI was going to call you a quisling but that was way too easy. But you do have Nazi sympathies, so I'll get back to you.

[@alistair1978utube]

Until now also you had no idea how to use apostrophes...

[@MrSmiley1964]

@@alistair1978utube And whaut's wrong with apostrophes? The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''!

[@orionassante3386]

The name Quisling is so relevant in Europe right now, especially among certain politicians in UK, France, Ireland, Spain, etc.

[@motherdear3733]

But not Hungary?

[@blitz8221]

@@motherdear3733 he said etc; et cetera, or in other words, among others

[@edwardkuenzi5751]

​@@blitz8221I see the etc, but I think Hungary should have been on top of the list. I guess in their case it's not certain politicians, but rather the leader of the country.

[@edwardkuenzi5751]

And let's not forget about the United States. We have the most dangerous of them all.

[@blitz8221]

@@edwardkuenzi5751 maybe not on top, as the Italian PM is a literal fascist, but defientely on the list

[@philcollinson328]

Fascinating vid...thank you.

[@nocturne7371]

It's impressive when your name almost 100 years later is still synonymous with traitor in large parts of the world!

[@torehaaland6921]

During the war, Norway had bills of 1 krone and 2 kroner. The 1 krone was referred to as an "usling"-a despicefull, untrustworthy looser, basically. The 2 krone bill was referred to as a quisling. So one quisling equalled two uslinger. This was kind of an underground slang.

[@landsea7332]

8:30 From a Constitutional perspective , this is an important point . The King of Norway used his executive authority in an attempt to stop a dictator from taking over . The King said to Cabinet that he would not appoint Quisling to be Prime Minister because he did not have the confidence of the people , nor the Parliament , of Norway . The Government unanimously voted to support the King's stance and the Norwegians continued with their resistance . Quisling's coup only lasted 6 days . This is why Constitutional Monarch's need to remain in place today . .

[@landsea7332]

Reading up on Norway's Monarch today - the King still holds some executive authority ( signs legislation before it becomes law and appoints the government ) . Also the King is also Supreme Commander of the Norwegian Armed Forces . The King's position is mostly symbolic and diplomatic . However , theoretically the King could stop a dictator from taking over because he could say I'm not going to sign this legislation and he is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces . .

[@johnarnold893]

I saw David Letterman call Norm MacDonald a Quisling once and Norm had to get a dictionary to look it up. lol.

[@roddyboethius1722]

Well, old cancerous Norm was a Maga

[@arildsolemdal6966]

This video should be named "8 seconds about the execution of Quisling."

[@Itried20takennames]

If you are here mainly for the details of an execution, you can probably find that better elsewhere on the Internet. But I think most people are here for the history and *why* they were executed, not the execution itself.

[@ashrakus]

Amazing video as always. The best history youtube channel. ❤

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thank you so much

[@FermiFred]

Every Norwegian family, seemingly, has one distant family member who was a prized member of the military operation that blew up the heavy water plant as well as one family member who supported Quisling. The former talked about much more than the latter. That is, until the Aquavit is out.

[@Endurancesportsafter70ye-bi6fk]

I only know two words in Norwegian: Aquavit and Smorgasbord, so I could survive in Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

[@ingersundeid7948]

Smørgåsbord is Swedish, though

[@petergibson2318]

Berserk is a Norwegian word. “Berserkers” were the fiercest Vikings. The word means “Bear’s Shirt”, from their bearskin fur clothes.

[@afaultytoaster]

Thank you to all the brave people who fought for democracy and against fascism, in Norway and across the world 🙂

[@muhammadabdulsalam602]

May God protect us against Traitors in our lives. And may he makes us understand those trying to betrays us

[@JB-yb4wn]

Which god? So many laughable gods to choose from.

[@patrickclune3600]

Folks in todays history lesson that will “ live in infamy “ concerning U.S history as treasonous, “ BIDEN and HARRIS “ brought to by their puppet master “ GEORGE SOROS “. By the way ( my father in-law was in the army stationed in Hawaii at Schofield barracks when the Japanese attacked. They knew we were gonna be attacked and FDR did too but he sacrificed his navy and army just to get the lack of support to go after Japan. General Patton wanted to go after Russia knowing what they really were like and to finish them off to avoid problems later. My dad was in the U.S. army in Europe. He told me we should’ve and could’ve beat ‘em. We had the Koreans beat and backed up to China but Truman said no to both Patton and Koreas war. Here too we see what questionable president can do

[@Arltratlo]

Trump is there to destroy your dreams!

[@JAI_8]

I believe you’ll find throughout history the name(s) of “gods” being invoked by autocrats, authoritarians and deluded murderous traitors in their betrayal of ACTUAL LIVING (soon to be dead, usually … “in the name of >) HUMAN PEOPLE, rather than a source of wisdom to help identify and resist such traitors. It’s more often the case that universal egalitarian human reason and sympathy for our COMMON HUMANITY that serves this purpose. As for protecting us? Seeing as how there’s been so many such murderous traitorous “leaders” throughout history presumably under all these “gods’” whatchful eyes then I’d say it’s foolish to leave it up to some non-existent supernatural fairy-tale being(s) to minister to such an important task. That’s one of the main reasons to embrace democracy, rule of law and egalitarian values above all other social principles; it’s up to us to resist the temptation to FOLLOW such men and give them the institutional power they require to become the historical abominations we come to identify as “traitors to their people”. It’s not some god that makes these men, or protects us from them. It’s us. It’s up to you and to me to get off our ass and DO something when we see such crimes being enacted.

[@Helperbot-2000]

@@JB-yb4wn X)

[@anthonyburke5656]

Not every traitor has their name enter into the dictionary of multiple languages as both a noun and adjective!

[@chrismiller5198]

I would not rule it out as a verb also.

[@anthonyburke5656]

@@chrismiller5198 can you “quisle”?

[@chrismiller5198]

@@anthonyburke5656 That is exactly what Quisling did.

[@larstveiten4164]

The very name Quisling sounds very much " foreign" to any Norwegian,almost as beeing of say Englich or French origin. Beeing Norwegian and a history buff, I would like to add the following: When on the 9th of April 1940,invasion day,Quisling went on Norw. radio to make a coup, lots and lots of "undesided" Norwegians rose to join forces against the Germans. Historians even mark this as a turning point to galvanize the later so strong resistance. Stand up against dictators!

[@larstveiten4164]

The very name Quisling sounds very much " foreign" to any Norwegian,almost as beeing of say Englich or French origin. Beeing Norwegian and a history buff, I would like to add the following: When on the 9th of April 1940,invasion day,Quisling went on Norw. radio to make a coup, lots and lots of "undesided" Norwegians rose to join forces against the Germans. Historians even mark this as a turning point to galvanize the later so strong resistance. Stand up against dictators!

[@RodneyAllanPoe]

Another fascinating story. Thank you again.

[@BadgerOfTheSea]

In Britain, to this day, the word "Quisling" is synonymous with "Traitor". There have been newspaper articles about football players swapping to a rival team calling them Quisling.

[@hofra1272]

I am german, lived and worked in Norway in the late 1980's as a young guy. One of my norwegian collegues mentioned he had an old uncle ("very nice man") who was married to a german lady. He suggested they would love to meet me and arranged a visit. I went there for coffee and to start with there was a warm and friendly atmosphere. However after a while the old man mentioned the war and I expressed that I was deeply ashamed of what my fathers generation had done. But his reaction came as a shock, he praised Hitler and Quisling, called Willy Brandt a traitor and insisted that the Jews had declared war to Germany. I quickly left this horrifying meeting while having problems to stay polite. The next day I asked my colluege, why he didn't tell me about his uncles views beforehand. His unbelievable reaction was that they never talked politics. It didn't seem to bother him at all that he had forced me into this unpleasant situation.

[@user-yp2mw2ko9k]

Dich hat man ja herzallerliebst umerzogen und anscheinend bist du unendlich stolz darauf.

[@hofra1272]

@@user-yp2mw2ko9k Es gibt Antworten, die erkennen lassen, welch widerwärtige Geisteshaltung der Verfasser hegt. Mich brauchte niemand "umzuerziehen", denn meine Familie war z.T. Opfer des Nazi-Regimes, dem Sie scheinbar nahestehen. Darf ich raten? Sie symathisieren auch mit der neuen Nazi-Partei AfD. Noch etwas: Ich verbitte mir das DU von einem Faschisten!

[@die1mayer]

Willy Brandt was a traitor, he sold out to the Communists.

[@Occident.]

The Old Man was correct. They did declare War on Germany in March 1933.

[@user-yp2mw2ko9k]

@@Occident. Exactly, when they opened up the polish trap.

[@Freeseselj]

I think that the word Quisling had been overused, and that it is Djindjic's turn to have his name become a synonymous for a traitor who collaborates with outside and hostile powers.

[@stischer47]

Ah, a Russian vatnik I see.

[@GoCoyote]

The problem is that quisling just rolls of the tongue better in the English language.

[@DMBall]

Very informative. For most people, Quisling is just a name, and it's enlightening to learn the whole story.

[@renee1961]

Good morning, and as ALWAYS, Thank You for these Important, Well Done videos.

[@matthewbrook7683]

Everytime I see this guys name I am reminded of the quote of King Leonidis at thermopolae who turned to the traitor Ephilates and said " You Ephilates, may you live for ever" The same could be said about Vidkun Quisling. His name will live for ever in shame.

[@robbie_]

The moral of this story is that people who score top in exams are in practice no smarter than anyone else and in his case a lot dumber.

[@user-xt3be8tu8t]

Very true!

[@colingundel8779]

Well they are people if you have more than 2 braincells. This is nothing new. The real moral of the story is. If you here someone spouting natiolistic bullcrap. Laugh and walk away.

[@charltheron2769]

Intelligence doesn't automatically imply wisdom.

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Vidkun Quislings remain in positions of power and influence to this day.

[@woodenseagull1899]

The EU is run by Quislings in Brussels with its German connection....

[@TheBergmark]

True.

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

Sadly, so true.

[@marcusaurelius9123]

Victor Orban, Putins puppet

[@reynaldoflores4522]

What if you're a Norwegian and your family name happened to be Quisling. Wouldn't people be prejudiced against you ?

[@pauldow1648]

Good documentary.

[@oxmugger]

What a brilliant young man. Where did it really start to go wrong, apart from the comic interlude as an art collector?

[@Don-6164]

My mother is Norwegian and was born in 1933. She always remained loyal to Norway even as a child and never forgave Germany.

[@triciajohansen7124]

My father is also Norwegian but has lived in the states most of his life. He remains loyal to his birthday and adopted nations. He forgave Germany, but his parents did not. A young German man asked for directions and she just ignored him. Dad assisted him ( he can speak German as well as 5 others) and he explained her feelings and reasons. I totally understood why she felt the way she did. RIP Farmor❤🙏✝️😪

[@triciajohansen7124]

Sorry, his birth nation.

[@davidlynch9049]

It was the Nazis. Germany today is more democratic than the US.

[@lundsweden]

The Nazis were a ghastly institution but Germans were brainwashed at the time that they had to do what they did. The Nazis were clever, and used the fear of Communism and Communist expansion to drive fear into the population. Of course there was some truth in this fear, but the Nazis twisted it to serve their own depraved ideology.

[@JB-yb4wn]

@@triciajohansen7124 Yes, boy you must keep loyal to your birthday, it's a reminder that a year of your life has passed. FFS country of birth.

[@bobtaylor170]

It's hilarious that he somewhat resembled W.C. Fields.

[@bobtaylor170]

@@8634StJamesAve you are a malignant narcissist and could impress me only if you transcended your psychopathy. I'm well aware that there are more important things about his life than his vagrant resemblance to Fields. What strikes me is that a vacuous personality such as you thought you could take me aback. I've survived a bombing. You're a nothing.

[@davidgaine4697]

😅

[@cedricliggins7528]

Quisling didn't have a sense of humor

[@bobtaylor170]

@@cedricliggins7528 no, he doesn't seem to have been given to whimsy.

[@JCMC57]

at .15 Norway why are you showing the London bridge?

[@thefriendlyapostate8290]

It is not so much the fact that Quisling sold out Norway to the Germans which made his name a synonym for a pathologically traitor: he actually had made a pitch to the Bolsheviks some years prior but they were not really interested. It was that lack of principle and the lust for totalitarian power which did it. However, I actually did not know that he was such a highly gifted young man.

[@jamesmoore9511]

As a young child the name Quisling was well known to my family as a bad person - The traitor who sold out Norway. My relatives in Norway did make it through the war as did most of our neighbors families.

[@WilloSNoack]

The German army had occupied Norway without Quislings help and against the help of the British army for the defeated Norway government. Norway was ruled by the German Nazi Terboven and not by Quisling and his henchmen. Quisling got orders from Terboven. The Norvegian judges were injustice and stupid! Therefore Quisling was murdered!

[@everettamador9870]

I remember a loony tunes cartoon where Daffy Duck was hiding the Thanksging turkey from a Pilgrim Porky Pig..Trying to help him but he heard how delicious the meal was to be and because of Candied Yam he betrayed the Turkey (Hidden inside a snowman) who called him a "Quisling.." later i found out it was the name of a Norweign Official...before that I had no idea it was a person's last name....😐

[@garymorris1856]

I have always though it interesting that Quisling was so hated for being a traitor that his name came to be synonymous for the word traitor.

[@ralphthestrider4329]

_Vidkun_ can be translated directly to "Wide Knowledge". Very sad that didn't have wide wisdom.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

A traitor of Norway 🇳🇴 during WW2...

[@woodenseagull1899]

Germany has still got its Soild hands smothering the whole of Europe today..

[@triciajohansen7124]

A traitor to the human race!!!

[@davidlynch9049]

Imagine your last name being added to the language lexicon for the word traitor?

[@KristianLindgren]

Quislings remains was never sent to Fyresdal. Hos remains was transported to a family burialsite in Gjerpen (now part of Skien) first of july 1959. After his wife Maria died the name of Quisling was added to the grave stone.

[@ericktamberg670]

Where is the narrator's accent from? I swear I could only understand the pronunciation of "thirty" (as in "1939") by reading the subtitles.

[@heikkijhautanen4576]

In Finland this kind of a traitor would have been fed to the wolves :/

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

Oh Yeah, no collaboration with the nazis in finland.....

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

Today they rule the country.

[@marttimattila9561]

Turhaa uhoa, täällä on harrastettu maanpetturuutta milloin mihinkin suuntaan ilman suurempia seuraamuksia. Vai tarkoitatko Seiskassa kirjoittelua=Susille syöttämistä.

[@davidsigalow7349]

Give them the Sisu Treatment!

[@GTTwincam]

Tell me again which side Finland fought on in this war?

[@1aikane]

He probably thought this was the new power and tried to get on the good side of it. Poor choice.

[@danielsharp6731]

Unforgivable, never again!

[@cronistamundano8189]

This guy ranks in the top 10 SOBs of WWII, if not higher

[@danielwebster5748]

Isn't that crazy that Norway held out longer than France it was actually considered almost comical to the rest of the world but the most powerful country in Europe fell in less than 6 weeks.

[@bobtaylor170]

The fight the Norwegians put up against the Germans is one of the great stories of the war.

[@peterschutzek325]

@@bobtaylor170 Indeed. Other then Denmark.

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

They had the british and french army and navy up there as well, and its a much harder terrain to invade than france. Its moronic to just say 'the norwegians were braver than the french and danes'. It was a totally different fight in which the germans couldnt use their tanks to their full ability due to the terrain and layout. The germans wernt so sure about carrying it out due to their deficiencies in amphibious landings and the risk of meeting the royal navy/french/norwegian navy.

[@davidlynch9049]

To be fair, France has a big border with Germany, and the Germans were overwhelming superior in military power than the French when they invaded. Your interpretation is incorrect.

[@kenneth9874]

​@@davidlynch9049actually france had better armor than germany but squandered it and the defensive advantage.....

[@kevinray5636]

We have a traitor in Washington who will be know in history as the worst traitor in world history.

[@Langkowski]

All the media that supported him should forever be remembered for their support

[@MisterWade74]

And the moronic voters who number almost half of eligible voters in their country. It’s a disgrace of historic proportions for the human race.

[@16rumpole]

so that's what the term Quisling comes from; I didn't know.

[@Nugire]

Is this the guy the Quislings from the WWZ book are named after?

[@Baskerville22]

Actually, Germany invaded Denmark because the refusal of Britain to negotiate a peace meant that the European mainland West coast - from Northern Spain to Northern Norway - needed to be occupied by Germany to prevent any Allied incursion. They also needed to take Denmark to secure the Kriegsmarine's egress route from the Baltic.

[@valentinius62]

The British also invaded Iceland and along with the Soviet Union invaded Iran, both neutral countries. But those were righteous invasions unlike invasions carried out by the evil Germans, or something. 🙄

[@stischer47]

And I guess they invaded Poland because Poland refused to give them Danzig, or Russia because they refused to remove themselves east of the Urals.

[@Baskerville22]

@@stischer47 No...Hitler invaded Poland & the USSR because acquiring the vast territories in the East for German "living space" was his lifelong political obsession, and the sole reason he built up the Wehrmacht.

[@mecx7322]

@@stischer47 Danzig wasn't just a big city, it was the Free State of Danzig covering a much bigger area, entire Vistula estuary and more. In theory it was controlled by League of Nations but Poland had very little to say in this 95% German area. Only post office and railways ( partially ) were controlled by Polish authorities. You can say Danzig was almost entirely controlled by III Reich, but Hitler wanted it to become integral part of the country ruled from Berlin only, which Polish authorities refused against pressure from UK and France.

[@W1TT1G]

My grandfather drove Vidkun to his execution after his sentencing. My mother has told me many times, that my grandfather might have been the last person with whom Vidkun had his last conversation with.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Tell us more about it...

[@sundhaug92]

5:11 at the time the Storting was actually bichamberial at the time, it didn't become monochamberial until 2009

[@guillepankeke2844]

It only took a war to be won for criminals to be judged. Makes you think...

[@Jose-ze1sn]

"Stop it, you quisling!" David Letterman to Norm Macdonald.

[@Dav1Gv]

Denmark may have been overrun quickly but they had a resistance movement through the war. I knew someone in our village in Wales who had married a Briton when Denmark was liberated and had served, among other things, as a courier - a very risky job indeed!

[@rossbrown6641]

Danish fishermen shipped Danish Jews over the straits to neutral Sweden, yet generally stole the money, jewellery etc and suitcases of the Jews!!!

[@imapseudonym1403]

And now the term "quizling" is used to describe any traitor to one's nation.

[@MoManny]

“He attempted to seize power in the world’s first radio broadcast coup d’etat” - when you think of the countless coups that would be announced via radio, especially in Africa, that’s an interesting historical title to have

[@guticid2]

Thanks

[@victoria383]

Currently used to describe western leaders bowing to the WEF

[@robertthomas3777]

Yep. Such as our Albo, Lab Party, Watermelons and Teals. 🦘🇦🇺👍

[@marksavage1108]

And all UK politicians who wanted to stay in the eu dictatorship

[@wirelessone2986]

The photo of Quisslings residence was used as a ww2 german base in a video game named THE DEADLY DOZEN!

[@GoCoyote]

I can understand fighting in the DEFENSE of one's country and family, but to murder and send innocent people to their deaths the way that Germany and their allies did just boggles the mind.

[@janspl]

Today is Quislings recidence a holocaust muzeum and memorial.

[@ExRhodesian]

A Holocaust museum well that is most fitting they pop up everywhere. I guess when you control media banking and advertising you can do as you please.

[@DonMeaker]

Young man with a brilliant career behind him. Collaboration was his last chance for power before old age.

[@roddyboethius1722]

A gifted loser

[@TheMykr0]

WW:Z was the first reference I remember of hearing "Quisling".

[@wehonews]

His name trips off the tongue, a quintessential villains name.

[@davidm3118]

The crazy thing about Quisling was that he supported Hitler and his racism, even though he had a Russian born wife who was of mixed Tartar and Jewish ethnicity!

[@84com83]

Am I listening to an AI "voice"? Is sounds so unrythmic and with no interest in the "script"!

[@andrewjones-productions]

Yes, you are. I do wish people would use their own voices. These computer generated voices are very unnatural and grating on the ears. This one was far more palatable than the dreadful voices that many Japanese KZbinrs tend to use. They are absolutely atrocious.

[@urica97]

What music is this?

[@mariusverwey2125]

One of the best AI voices used as a narrator. Wish it was not a robot, I would subscribe if it was not.