Image: Vidkun Quisling på talerstolen i anledning Reichsjugendführer Axmanns besøk. (8617530334)

Description: Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945) was a Norwegian military officer and politician. He first came to international prominence when organizing humanitarian relief during the Russian famine of 1921 in Ukraine. He served as Minister of Defence in two governments 1931–1933, representing the Farmers' Party. On 9 April 1940, with the German invasion of Norway in progress, he attempted to seize power in the world's first radio-broadcast coup d'état, but failed after the Germans refused to support his government. From 1942 to 1945 he served as Minister-President, heading the Norwegian state administration jointly with the German civilian administrator Josef Terboven. His pro-Nazi puppet government, known as the Quisling regime, was dominated by ministers from Nasjonal Samling, the party he founded in 1933. Quisling was put on trial during the legal purge in Norway after World War II and executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress, Oslo, on 24 October 1945.
Title: Vidkun Quisling på talerstolen i anledning Reichsjugendführer Axmanns besøk. (8617530334)
Credit: Vidkun Quisling på talerstolen i anledning Reichsjugendführer Axmanns besøk.
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