By Michael Walsh
"A Nordic union among Scandinavia and nice Britain, with the
adherence of Finland and Holland, and within which Germany and eventually
the British Dominions and the United States may well in a while be absorbed, would
take away the edge of any communist mixture and safe European
civilization and peace for the foreseeable future." – Vidkun Quisling,
‘Russia and Us’, 1930
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If Hitler failed to break the back of bolshevism, there was still the belief that the western Powers would clip its claws, or at least contain it within the old Russian boundaries. " – Franklin Knudsen. "The British were adept at committing atrocities leaving evidence to suggest partisan responsibility. German retaliation often resulted in inflaming tension: "It is sufficient to call to mind how the ‘voice of London’ sparkled with enthusiasm every time it reported new German reprisals, executions and deportations.
Perversely, rarely has a prosecution so successfully managed to turn acts of great patriotism into base treachery. Denounced as a traitor for offering a defensive solution to an invasion from whatever quarter, for exposing an illegal act (extension of parliament) by a government, warning his country of an enemy’s invasion plans, and denouncing his government for collaborating and acquiescing to England’s planned invasion. That is treachery? It was never explained why, if it was Quisling’s intention to surrender his country to Germany, why his party alone in the Norwegian parliament, had offered a solution that would guarantee Norway’s continued neutrality.
He was almost certainly Jewish. An article in the ‘Aftenposten’ April 18, 1947, says: "It would perhaps not be so strange, if one or other of the worst traitors (landssvikers), who is brought into the court, where Judge Eric Solem is presiding, for a moment recalls to his mind the inscription over the entrance to Dante’s famous hell. ’ This statement incredibly was written in an article praising ‘hanging judge’ Solem. ’ The entire legal apparatus assembled to judge Vidkun Quisling was drawn from his avowed enemies.