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

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  • @skn9895
    @skn9895 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +186

    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
      @Cas_anova 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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.

    • @user-pt1ow8hx5l
      @user-pt1ow8hx5l 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Beautiful story. And a family home you managed to keep in the family. Well done.

    • @pourtoukist
      @pourtoukist 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      To be exact this "Sognefjord" and not "Sogn og fjord"

    • @pezlover1974
      @pezlover1974 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @pourtoukist Unless they meant Sogn og Fjordane

    • @pourtoukist
      @pourtoukist 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pezlover1974 Yeh, you're right, that's true! This seems so long ago now

  • @TheDigitalApple
    @TheDigitalApple ปีที่แล้ว +919

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

    • @WorldHistoryVideos
      @WorldHistoryVideos  ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Exactly. Such a shame ...

    • @gerhardschelbi8742
      @gerhardschelbi8742 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Not in Europa

    • @RevLeigh55
      @RevLeigh55 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      Quisling and Benedict Arnold.

    • @Xydorf
      @Xydorf ปีที่แล้ว +69

      ​@@gerhardschelbi8742yes it is!

    • @t.b.g.504
      @t.b.g.504 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.)

  • @davidharris4062
    @davidharris4062 ปีที่แล้ว +259

    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
      @christopher9727 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @triciajohansen7124
      @triciajohansen7124 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@thespammerhammer AMEN🙏❤

    • @reicherosterreicher3486
      @reicherosterreicher3486 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thespammerhammer you are completely in the dark

    • @reicherosterreicher3486
      @reicherosterreicher3486 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @flyzart8148
      @flyzart8148 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @Opedanderson
    @Opedanderson ปีที่แล้ว +503

    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
      @reicherosterreicher3486 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @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.
      🇦🇹🎗🇳🇴

    • @GregorSass-Ranitz
      @GregorSass-Ranitz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

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

    • @reicherosterreicher3486
      @reicherosterreicher3486 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@GregorSass-Ranitz you're completely right thank you 🫡

    • @skunkjobb
      @skunkjobb 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +139

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

    • @lundsweden
      @lundsweden 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@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!

  • @craigkdillon
    @craigkdillon ปีที่แล้ว +359

    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
      @Larrymh07 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

    • @daleanddelld6805
      @daleanddelld6805 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

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

    • @Larrymh07
      @Larrymh07 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

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

    • @craigkdillon
      @craigkdillon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

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

    • @Minalkra
      @Minalkra 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      @@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
    @davey7452 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    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
      @stewatparkpark2933 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      17:58 - Shot ?

    • @davey7452
      @davey7452 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Correction he was shot.

    • @peterschutzek325
      @peterschutzek325 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @poonoi1968
      @poonoi1968 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      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
      @stewatparkpark2933 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @alexstrachan2160
    @alexstrachan2160 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +178

    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."

    • @MarciaClark-x2v
      @MarciaClark-x2v 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Very interesting!

    • @bimble7240
      @bimble7240 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Do you think this might have been an SOE operation?

    • @GregorSass-Ranitz
      @GregorSass-Ranitz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "The" Quisling?

    • @GregorSass-Ranitz
      @GregorSass-Ranitz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@DemonWarp65 She was a traitor, not Quisling.

    • @DemonWarp65
      @DemonWarp65 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @fritzbasset8645
    @fritzbasset8645 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +148

    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
      @billfarley9167 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Especially Denmark.

    • @petergibson2318
      @petergibson2318 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      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.)

    • @JohnSmith-ei2pz
      @JohnSmith-ei2pz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not in the UK the royalty were Nazi- sympathisers

    • @ossi4766
      @ossi4766 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My Great Great grandfather who sailed for the allied in the Murmansk, convoy he hated the roayls and the goverment. Because of there running away to England and he lost hes brother in the second campaign in Narvik.

    • @GregorSass-Ranitz
      @GregorSass-Ranitz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He betrayed Norway to the British and the London plutocrats.

  • @KolyaNickD
    @KolyaNickD ปีที่แล้ว +100

    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
      @Opedanderson ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Quisling was praised for his work during the Ukraine famine

    • @SnakeKoRn
      @SnakeKoRn 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @t16205
      @t16205 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He was also a friend of Fritjof Nansen, and the two did a lot of humanitarian work together before the war

  • @magnuslauglo5356
    @magnuslauglo5356 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    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
      @peterhoulihan9766 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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
      @Engie_Boi 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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
      @magnuslauglo5356 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@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
      @Engie_Boi 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@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
      @petergibson2318 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@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.

  • @wordscapes5690
    @wordscapes5690 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Thank you for labeling your audiovisuals. So many don’t, because they are non historical or irrelevant to the narration. Thank you for making a record and not just serving clicks.

    • @WorldHistoryVideos
      @WorldHistoryVideos  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you for your kind words.

    • @wordscapes5690
      @wordscapes5690 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@WorldHistoryVideos I actually watch many of your videos, but I just realized I have never subscribed. Rather rude of me. Have just remedied the situation.

    • @WorldHistoryVideos
      @WorldHistoryVideos  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wordscapes5690 Thank you for your kind words and welcome :)

  • @TomFynn
    @TomFynn 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    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
      @kjellg6532 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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
      @TomFynn 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @landsea7332
      @landsea7332 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @kathleenferguson3296
      @kathleenferguson3296 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wasn't he played by Errol Flynn in a movie?

  • @thepagan5432
    @thepagan5432 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    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
      @raybarry4307 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      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
      @IbnRiza 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @thepagan5432
      @thepagan5432 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@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
      @Endurancesportsafter70ye-bi6fk 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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
      @stischer47 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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?

  • @repomannv
    @repomannv ปีที่แล้ว +192

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

    • @moosecat
      @moosecat ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @misterwhipple2870
      @misterwhipple2870 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You should always be careful what you wish for.

    • @truxton1000
      @truxton1000 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @Pippie5555
      @Pippie5555 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Cannot wait for Putin to be judged the same way.

    • @truxton1000
      @truxton1000 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @afaultytoaster
    @afaultytoaster 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

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

    • @TyroneDeValera
      @TyroneDeValera 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Spain had successful fascism under Franco. I lived in Tuy Spain from 1969-72. It was great. Whereas every urban Jew neighborhood is a black drug slum north of the Mason-Dixon line.

    • @TheBlackfall234
      @TheBlackfall234 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@TyroneDeValera Brainwashed People repeating the phrases they heard from their masters. The Word of afaultytoaster is not worth much, because its safe to assume he is absolutely clueless about ww2 besides "Allies good, Axis bad"

  • @barelyasurvivor1257
    @barelyasurvivor1257 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

  • @hofra1272
    @hofra1272 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    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.

    • @hofra1272
      @hofra1272 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @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
      @die1mayer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @Occident.
      @Occident. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @iceblue25
      @iceblue25 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      From these comments you c that for some there is no hope.

  • @gavanwhatever8196
    @gavanwhatever8196 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    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
      @kenhmful 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      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..

    • @Lane17774
      @Lane17774 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @bell4textu973
      @bell4textu973 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @gavanwhatever8196 It was mainly 🇦🇹 soldiers that fought and occupied 🇳🇴 during WW2. Not 🇩🇪 as they have cheated the population with this false narrative up to this day. It was, after all, too embarrassing, losing a war to some troops of Austrians teenager soldiers invading from the seaways. 😆

    • @gavanwhatever8196
      @gavanwhatever8196 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bell4textu973 No worries, pal. Keep going with your false narrative delusion. Trivialising Norwegians just makes you look like a jerk.

  • @harryviking6347
    @harryviking6347 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

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

    • @JohnSmith-ei2pz
      @JohnSmith-ei2pz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We call people a Blair in the UK!

    • @margareta9081
      @margareta9081 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​​​@@JohnSmith-ei2pzkeir starmer

  • @pererlingjohansen6597
    @pererlingjohansen6597 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Till this day both Quisling and Rinnan are hated here.

    • @peterhoulihan9766
      @peterhoulihan9766 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      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
      @glacieractivity 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@peterhoulihan9766 This is perhaps the most insane thing I have seen written on TH-cam 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
      @magnusk9724 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@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
      @toadwine7654 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@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
      @peterhoulihan9766 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

  • @dgray3771
    @dgray3771 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    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
      @LouiseAndersen1991 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @drSvensen
      @drSvensen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well that's just not true. He fell out with Adolf because he kept banging on about Norwegian independence.

    • @popianartist1892
      @popianartist1892 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LouiseAndersen1991 a făcut f bine erau de partea adevarului, nu ca voi

  • @bobtaylor170
    @bobtaylor170 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    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
      @kenneth9874 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @ccrider3435
      @ccrider3435 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @Bustefaen
    @Bustefaen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

    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
      @louise_rose 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      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
      @Komotau4691 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@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
      @norwegianboyee 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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
      @metapolitikgedanken612 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      "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
      @Bustefaen 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@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.

  • @torehaaland6921
    @torehaaland6921 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    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.

  • @Concussed1.
    @Concussed1. ปีที่แล้ว +50

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

    • @roaropgard8575
      @roaropgard8575 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @INSANESUICIDE
      @INSANESUICIDE ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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
      @DunedinMultimedia2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

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

    • @INSANESUICIDE
      @INSANESUICIDE 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

    • @GregorSass-Ranitz
      @GregorSass-Ranitz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @landsea7332
    @landsea7332 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    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
      @landsea7332 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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 .
      .

  • @tarmbruster1
    @tarmbruster1 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

    • @aussiedeplorable8670
      @aussiedeplorable8670 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The smartest person doesn’t always win the chocolates.

    • @strombouts
      @strombouts ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Like Drumph.

    • @willkittwk
      @willkittwk ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pride cometh before the fall

    • @willkittwk
      @willkittwk ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @robertthomas3777
      @robertthomas3777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hubris.

  • @nocturne7371
    @nocturne7371 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @ccrider3435
    @ccrider3435 ปีที่แล้ว +96

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

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      UMMM Trump, Blair, Bush, Belersconi

    • @patrickclune3600
      @patrickclune3600 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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

    • @freddy8479
      @freddy8479 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @davead6578
      @davead6578 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Add Trudeau to the list. Big Time.

    • @GregoryWhite-g8x
      @GregoryWhite-g8x ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @brucefelger4015
    @brucefelger4015 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The only traitors name not usually capitalized when in use.

  • @anthonyburke5656
    @anthonyburke5656 ปีที่แล้ว +42

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

    • @chrismiller5198
      @chrismiller5198 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would not rule it out as a verb also.

    • @anthonyburke5656
      @anthonyburke5656 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chrismiller5198 can you “quisle”?

    • @chrismiller5198
      @chrismiller5198 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@anthonyburke5656 That is exactly what Quisling did.

    • @larstveiten4164
      @larstveiten4164 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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
      @larstveiten4164 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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!

  • @roaropgard8575
    @roaropgard8575 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thank you for the story

  • @BadgerOfTheSea
    @BadgerOfTheSea 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

  • @Thecaptainblackadder
    @Thecaptainblackadder 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @evilborg
    @evilborg ปีที่แล้ว +45

    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
      @GoCoyote 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Quisling, Saint of traitors!

    • @Gingu0
      @Gingu0 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@GoCoyote Saint traitor

    • @LordDim1
      @LordDim1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Saint Quisling, patron Saint of traitors and cowards

  • @KohalaLover
    @KohalaLover ปีที่แล้ว +110

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

    • @syntric
      @syntric ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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
      @bobtaylor170 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@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
      @KohalaLover ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@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
      @peterschutzek325 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @KohalaLover
      @KohalaLover ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

  • @johannesnicolaas
    @johannesnicolaas 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

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

    • @taand4725
      @taand4725 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Netherlands, not Holland

    • @popianartist1892
      @popianartist1892 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      pentru că vă lăsați prostiți, bine vă stă.

  • @ralphthestrider4329
    @ralphthestrider4329 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @reneedennis2011
    @reneedennis2011 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thank you for this video.

    • @WorldHistoryVideos
      @WorldHistoryVideos  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for watching our videos. Greetings

    • @reneedennis2011
      @reneedennis2011 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b
    @i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

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

  • @mariolasanda8116
    @mariolasanda8116 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    great video!

  • @orionassante3386
    @orionassante3386 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

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

    • @motherdear3733
      @motherdear3733 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      But not Hungary?

    • @blitz8221
      @blitz8221 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @edwardkuenzi5751
      @edwardkuenzi5751 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@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
      @edwardkuenzi5751 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @blitz8221
      @blitz8221 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @ColinH1973
    @ColinH1973 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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
      @robjkenyon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @robjkenyon
      @robjkenyon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @FermiFred
    @FermiFred ปีที่แล้ว +23

    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
      @Endurancesportsafter70ye-bi6fk 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @ingersundeid7948
      @ingersundeid7948 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Smørgåsbord is Swedish, though

    • @petergibson2318
      @petergibson2318 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @FSboy70
      @FSboy70 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sounds more like nonsense.

  • @MarciaBaker1205
    @MarciaBaker1205 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Always an important history lesson. Thank you.

    • @IbnRiza
      @IbnRiza 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @Don-6164
    @Don-6164 ปีที่แล้ว +41

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

    • @triciajohansen7124
      @triciajohansen7124 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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
      @triciajohansen7124 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry, his birth nation.

    • @davidlynch9049
      @davidlynch9049 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @lundsweden
      @lundsweden ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @JB-yb4wn ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

  • @davidbradshaw3107
    @davidbradshaw3107 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    A traitor so famous, his name means traitor.

  • @matthewbrook7683
    @matthewbrook7683 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @thefriendlyapostate8290
    @thefriendlyapostate8290 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @JCMC57
    @JCMC57 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @Freeseselj
    @Freeseselj ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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
      @stischer47 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ah, a Russian vatnik I see.

    • @GoCoyote
      @GoCoyote 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe
    @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe ปีที่แล้ว +33

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

    • @woodenseagull1899
      @woodenseagull1899 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @TheBergmark
      @TheBergmark ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True.

    • @PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars
      @PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sadly, so true.

    • @marcusaurelius9123
      @marcusaurelius9123 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Victor Orban, Putins puppet

    • @reynaldoflores4522
      @reynaldoflores4522 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @muhammadabdulsalam602
    @muhammadabdulsalam602 ปีที่แล้ว +52

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

    • @JB-yb4wn
      @JB-yb4wn ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Which god? So many laughable gods to choose from.

    • @patrickclune3600
      @patrickclune3600 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @Arltratlo ปีที่แล้ว

      Trump is there to destroy your dreams!

    • @B_Estes_Undegöetz
      @B_Estes_Undegöetz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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
      @Helperbot-2000 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JB-yb4wn X)

  • @philcollinson328
    @philcollinson328 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Fascinating vid...thank you.

  • @bobbyricigliano2799
    @bobbyricigliano2799 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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.

  • @johnarnold893
    @johnarnold893 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

  • @danielwebster5748
    @danielwebster5748 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    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
      @bobtaylor170 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @peterschutzek325
      @peterschutzek325 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@bobtaylor170 Indeed. Other then Denmark.

    • @Ukraineaissance2014
      @Ukraineaissance2014 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      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
      @davidlynch9049 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @kenneth9874 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @W1TT1G
    @W1TT1G 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    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.

  • @jamesmoore9511
    @jamesmoore9511 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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
      @WilloSNoack ปีที่แล้ว

      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!

  • @bobtaylor170
    @bobtaylor170 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @bobtaylor170
      @bobtaylor170 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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
      @davidgaine4697 ปีที่แล้ว

      😅

    • @cedricliggins7528
      @cedricliggins7528 ปีที่แล้ว

      Quisling didn't have a sense of humor

    • @bobtaylor170
      @bobtaylor170 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @robbie_
    @robbie_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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.

    • @MarciaClark-x2v
      @MarciaClark-x2v 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Very true!

    • @colingundel8779
      @colingundel8779 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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
      @charltheron2769 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Intelligence doesn't automatically imply wisdom.

  • @mochtegerndane7097
    @mochtegerndane7097 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dane here - Quiling broke one of the central tabus of being a Scandinavian. You do NOT - repeat NOT - betray the king. It is simply not done.Never.

  • @1aikane
    @1aikane ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

  • @pauldow1648
    @pauldow1648 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Good documentary.

  • @Baskerville22
    @Baskerville22 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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
      @valentinius62 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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
      @stischer47 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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
      @Baskerville22 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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
      @mecx7322 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

  • @griegs2001
    @griegs2001 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As always life and people are more complicated than we think. But we like to keep things simple.
    1) During the 1920's Vidkun Quisling saved hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians from starvation - while Josef Stalin did his utmost to take away their food.
    2) At the military college in Norway, he received the highest grade ever given there (It still is).
    3) He was a traitor and collaborated with the German Nazis during WW2.

  • @kevinray5636
    @kevinray5636 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @Langkowski
      @Langkowski ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @MisterWade74
      @MisterWade74 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @joshuaryan1946
    @joshuaryan1946 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    OK, but you keep recylcing the same footage, leading me to question whether I'm watching Quisling visiting Hitler in 1940 or 1942 or 1945, or whether he did exactly the same things on every visit.

    • @davidlynch9049
      @davidlynch9049 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why don't you go back in time and film the parts you would like included? 🙄

    • @JB-yb4wn
      @JB-yb4wn ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@davidlynch9049
      In colour!

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    A traitor of Norway 🇳🇴 during WW2...

    • @woodenseagull1899
      @woodenseagull1899 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @triciajohansen7124
      @triciajohansen7124 ปีที่แล้ว

      A traitor to the human race!!!

  • @GoCoyote
    @GoCoyote 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @heikkijhautanen4576
    @heikkijhautanen4576 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @Ukraineaissance2014
      @Ukraineaissance2014 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz
      @4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Today they rule the country.

    • @marttimattila9561
      @marttimattila9561 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @davidsigalow7349
      @davidsigalow7349 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Give them the Sisu Treatment!

    • @GTTwincam
      @GTTwincam ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @KristianLindgren
    @KristianLindgren 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @DMBall
    @DMBall 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

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

  • @cronistamundano8189
    @cronistamundano8189 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @RodneyAllanPoe
    @RodneyAllanPoe ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Another fascinating story. Thank you again.

  • @garymorris1856
    @garymorris1856 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @ashrakus
    @ashrakus ปีที่แล้ว +32

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

  • @Nugire
    @Nugire 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @MrSmiley1964
    @MrSmiley1964 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    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!

    • @GregorSass-Ranitz
      @GregorSass-Ranitz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @MrSmiley1964
      @MrSmiley1964 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@GregorSass-RanitzI 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
      @alistair1978utube 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @MrSmiley1964
      @MrSmiley1964 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @thomaspick4123
      @thomaspick4123 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Jews never seem to ask themselves why they were persecuted. Not for their religion. Because of their horrible banking practices which steal every one’s wealth and leaves them destitute. I trusted Alex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius with my life savings. Alex stole all my money. How would you feel if this happened to you? Would you still love the Jews?

  • @arildsolemdal6966
    @arildsolemdal6966 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @Itried20takennames
      @Itried20takennames 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      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.

  • @arthurcrown3063
    @arthurcrown3063 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Looking at that scowl - is Thunberg related to him?

    • @anna67887
      @anna67887 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She's Swedish, not Norwegian

  • @everettamador9870
    @everettamador9870 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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....😐

  • @seandobson499
    @seandobson499 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great Britain did not declare war on Germany until the 4th of August 1914,what was declared on the 28th of July 1914 was the Austrian-Hungry declaration of war on Serbia, Germany declared war on France on the 3rd of August 1914 and Great Britain declared war on Germany on the 4th of August, followed by other countries until it, in effect was the First World War.
    The 11th of November was not the end of World War 1 but only the date when an armistice was declared and the 11th of November was known as Armistice Day when I was a child, over 60 years ago.
    The First World War did not officially end until the signing of peace at Versailles on the 28th of June 1919 and on many memorials in the UK you can read on them 'The great war 1914-1919'
    Following the defeat of France in June 1940,the Nazis forced France to singe an armistice in the railway carriage in the Compiegne Forrest which they were forced to sign the armistice in World War 1 in 1918, and they then blew it up.

    • @JB-yb4wn
      @JB-yb4wn ปีที่แล้ว

      It has always be known as Remembrance Day in Canada. Our memorials say 1918 because that is when the fighting actually stopped and our guys returned home.

    • @charlesharris9965
      @charlesharris9965 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One slight correction: After the Nazis victory and signing of the Armistice in the railway carrige, the Nazis blew up the memorial, not the railway carrige or the statue of Marshall Foch. The railway carrige was taken to Berlin and wasn't destroyed until just before the fall of Berlin in 1945. The railway carrige that is seen today is a replica of the original destroyed carrige.

    • @seandobson499
      @seandobson499 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@charlesharris9965 Thanks for that, I thought they blew up the railway carriage that the armistice was signed in as well.

    • @charlesharris9965
      @charlesharris9965 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @seandobson499 Actually the Germans took the railway carrige to display it in Berlin. It lasted until it was destroyed by an Allied bombing raid in 1944. The railway carrige that is on display today is a replica of the original.

  • @davidlynch9049
    @davidlynch9049 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

  • @WhereAmI-Xyz
    @WhereAmI-Xyz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My great grandparents worked and were close friends with Henry Rinnan, They even showed up at his execution and got too be the last ones he said goodbye too. They had even got too meet mr painter himself. I didn't get too know about this until late 2023 as it has been a secret in our family. And up in the attic there are still pictures of my great grandparents and mr painter together with Henry. Truly disturbing.

  • @CH1LST3P
    @CH1LST3P 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Hvil i fred Vidkun. Ditt navn blir aldri glemt

    • @sledstorm4703
      @sledstorm4703 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      trur du skal smake på hagla

    • @seriall1337
      @seriall1337 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Du er ikke verdt lufta du puster

  • @danielsharp6731
    @danielsharp6731 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Unforgivable, never again!

  • @davidm3118
    @davidm3118 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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!

  • @sundhaug92
    @sundhaug92 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @JohnSmith-ct5jd
    @JohnSmith-ct5jd ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Quisling's name has gone down in history alongside Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold.

  • @cieludbjrg4706
    @cieludbjrg4706 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There is a famous cartoon from Quisling’s latest meeting with Hitler: Qusiling is mounting the steps up to Hitler, and proudly exclaimg: "I’m Quisling!", and Hitler replying "And the name?" (-Jeg er Quisling! -Og navnet?). And of course, his name is now synonymous with traitor.

    • @Robert_Robertson
      @Robert_Robertson 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      *But,*
      *isn't EVERY TrumnpSCuumer a Quis-Ling who SOLD OUT America to Vlad Putin!!!???*

  • @DonMeaker
    @DonMeaker ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @guillepankeke2844
    @guillepankeke2844 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @Dav1Gv
    @Dav1Gv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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
      @rossbrown6641 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @WolfHeathen
    @WolfHeathen 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Here in Scandinavia, you don't call someone a traitor. You call them a "quisling". The Swedish dictionary lists it as follows:
    "quisl·ing [kvis`ling] substantiv ~en ~ar
    • person who treasonously collaborates with occupying enemy power"

  • @Jose-ze1sn
    @Jose-ze1sn ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @urica97
    @urica97 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What music is this?

  • @84com83
    @84com83 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @andrewjones-productions
      @andrewjones-productions ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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 TH-camrs tend to use. They are absolutely atrocious.

  • @donaldostrem4982
    @donaldostrem4982 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    VidCon quisling will always be a traitor to me. My dad 's. Ancestors came from Norway. And it seems to me this guy just wanted to be a governor like Hans, Frank and Poland. He might have been a Lutheran preacher's son, but he really screwed it up in the end of his life.

  • @odysseusrex7202
    @odysseusrex7202 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How did medical tests injure his health?