QUISLING

  • NAZIS SURRENDER IN NORWAY

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 4 minutes

    Oslo, Norway · May 8, 1945 On May 5, 1945, five days after Adolf Hitler’s sui­cide in the cata­combs beneath his Reich capi­tal, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Su­preme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, sent a tele­gram to resis­tance leaders in Nor­way, who passed it to the Com­mander in Chief of Ger­man forces in Nor­way,…

  • QUISLING CREATES NORWEGIAN DICTATORSHIP

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 4 minutes

    Oslo, Occupied Norway · February 7, 1942 On this date in 1942 in German-occupied Norway, Minister Presi­dent Vid­kun Quis­ling abol­ished the Nor­we­gian consti­tu­tion and estab­lished a dic­ta­tor­ship one year after as­cending to the pre­si­dency. Quis­ling had been a reserve officer in the Nor­we­gian Army and served as the Nor­we­gian Minis­ter of Defense from 1931 to…