quisling definition - Dictionary

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quis·ling [ kwízzling ] (plural quis·lings)

noun

Definition:

traitor: a traitor, especially somebody who collaborates with an occupying force

[Mid-20th century. After Vidkun Quisling, puppet premier of Norway during Nazi occupation]

quis·ling·ism noun

Word History


	Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian politician who from 1933 led the National Union Party, the Norwegian fascist party. (Quisling was not his real name - he was originally Abraham Lauritz Jonsson.) When the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, he gave them active support, urging his fellow Norwegians not to resist them, and in 1942 he was installed by Hitler as a puppet premier. In 1945 he was shot for treason.