Vidkun Quisling: The Infamous Norwegian Traitor Executed By His Own People

In WW2 Vidkun Quisling collaborated with Nazi Germany to seize power in his home country of Norway. His name is so closely associated with betrayal that his second name became slang for traitor in several languages. His despicable actions sent his own countrymen to the grave but by the end of the war would see him executed.

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[MilitarySummaryChannel]

*In Norway, if you betray someone, people may say you're doing "A Quisling." So, his betrayal still holds stigma.*

[johankaewberg]

One of the few persons to get his name into the dictionary. “Quisling” is a synonym for “traitor”.

[gustavakerman]

Having your name in the dictionary is either VERY GOOD or VERY BAD and there is no middle ground

[larskolme]

I suppose "being a Quisling" means being a traitor in just about every european language. Probably some non-european ones, too.

[grf]

When I hear the narrator's voice, I know that I'm about to learn interesting facts. This channel is consistently excellent.

[SekurusTheProudViking]

His last words were "DERE SKYTER EN USKYLDIG MANN!" After he sentenced several hundred Norwegian Jews the death penalty aka concentration camps.

[jokodihaynes]

"One would like to be both the one and the other but because it is difficult to combine them it is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both"- Machiavelli

[majorthombe]

Terrible mistake in this resume; Famine in 1920` was in Ukraine, not in Russia - back then both a part of Soviet Union.
A very important distinction.

[andrehel]

fun fact being called a quisling is one of the meanest things to tell someone in norway

[Calicarver]

Correction: The famine mentioned at 2:45 was not in Russia but in Ukrainian Soviet Union.
The Ukrainians did not want to be part of the USSR and Stalins intentional government-controlled farming methods lead to failed crops and famine. Quisling joined famous explorer and national hero Nansen who did good work there and has streets named after him. Quisling, was one of very few executed in Norway but his sympathizers and fellow Norwegian nazis were marked for life as traitors and shunned in their local communities.

[susanmckenzie]

A feature of evil people is their denial,

[MrEsfranck]

Quisling has become a synonymous for traitor also outside Norway. I have even heard it in Irish patriotic songs.

[Norway]

13:47 hey that’s Flekkefjord my farther was born there his mothers uncle helped hide Gunvald tornstad from Gestapo in a sheep barn near my grandfathers house

[holretz]

Quisling is a prime example of someone who should have stayed far away from

[gabegood]

Quisling.. a verb and a noun (betray and traitor)

[saydvoncripps]

He didn't love Norway. He wanted to male it another Germany. A different country entirely.

[HansPetterBekeng]

Every year we hold a medieval festival on the Akershus Fortress, and there we have our crew co right next to what's called the gunpowder tower, where Quisling and other traitors who were executed after the war were held before they were executed. The gunpowder tower has been used for all sorts of things up though history, from storing gunpowder, to housing slaves, to housing holding cells for traitors who were to be executed.

The soldiers who are stationed at Akershus and actually live right next to the gunpowder tower will all tell you how the place is haunted. The whole fortress.

It's so cool every time we get Americans visiting the fortress, because you simple haven't got anything like our European castle fortresses in the US, and they're always so surprised and impressed over how awesome it actually is, still today. The whole fortress and the castle inside of it and everything is fully preserved and functioning to this day, and it even has or is an active military garrison, in addition to also house the stable for Oslo's police horses, several museums and a couple of venue places. It also offers a great view over the Oslo harbor and downtown Oslo. It's a very popular place, where you can go and just chill in the grass besides the old canons and have your lunch or whatever.

Thank you.

[trondjacobsen]

Hva skal så barnet hete?.. allt anna enn Vidkun……

[bennylloyd-willner]

He wasn't really executed "by his own people, " was he? He was executed in Norway, the country he betrayed.

[AtleBerven]

Thanks for a great upload. I really love the narrating voice on this video, and hope that it is NOT AI generated.