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Vidkun Quisling
Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), a Norwegian military officer and politician. In 1933 he founded Nasjonal Samling, a Norwegian national socialist party, after the invasion of Germany on Norway on the 9th April 1940 he tried to perform a coup d’état on the radio. Since 1942 he was the prime minister of the Norwegian puppet government, controlled by Germany. In 1945 he was tried and executed for high treason.
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