Quisling, after Norwegian politician Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany to conquer his own country, is a term used to describe traitors and collaborationists. Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945 was a Norwegian army Officer and politician Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers In Law, treason is the Crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one's sovereign or Nation. Collaborationism, can describe the Treason of cooperating with enemy Forces occupying one's Country. It was most commonly used for fascist political parties and military and paramilitary forces in occupied Allied countries which collaborated with Axis occupiers in World War II, as well as for their members and other collaborators. The Allies of World War II were the countries officially opposed to the Axis powers during the Second World War. The Axis powers also known as the Axis alliance Axis nations Axis countries or sometimes just the Axis were those Countries World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
That Quisling's name should be applied to denote the whole phenomenon of collaborationism is probably due to the place of Norway on the list of countries occupied by the Third Reich. The Nazis were not interested in Polish collaborationism, because they planned to extirpate the Polish nation completely and resettle Poland with Germans, and Denmark fell within a few hours. Generalplan Ost ( GPO) was a secret Nazi plan of Genocide and Ethnic cleansing to be realised in the territories occupied The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe Operation Weserübung was the codename for Nazi Germany 's assault on Denmark and Norway during World War II and the opening operation Thus, Norway was the first country where local, non-German, fascist parties took part in the conquest of their own country after the start of the War.
In contemporary usage, "Quisling" is synonymous with "traitor", and particularly applied to politicians who appear to favour the interests of other nations or cultures over their own. In American English, the term is less well known than the equivalent phrase "Benedict Arnold". Phonology North American English regional phonology In many ways compared to English English, North American English is conservative in its Phonology. Benedict Arnold V ( – June 14, 1801) was a General during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental
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Quisling organizations in World War II
- Denmark
- Belgium
- France
- Mouvement Franciste
- Légion Française des Combattants
- Amis de la Légion
- Légion Française des Combattants et des volontaires de la Révolution Nationale
- Service d'Ordre Légionnaire
- Parti Populaire Français
- Rassemblement National Populaire
- Greece
- Greek National Socialist Party
- National Union of Greece
- ESPO
- Security Battalions
- Forces of Konstantinos Logothetopoulos and Ioannis Rallis
- Norway
- The Netherlands
- Yugoslavia
- Bela garda (Slovenian "White Guard")
- Domobranci (Slovenian "Homeland Defense")
- Ustasha
- Domobrani (Croatian "Homeland Defense")
- Forces of Dimitrije Ljotić and Milan Nedić
- Forces of Kosta Milovanović Pećanac
In popular culture
The many references in cartoons, television entertainment programs, and the like, show how widespread the word quisling became after the Second World War. Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Arbejderparti (National Socialist Workers’ Party of Denmark or DNSAP, was the largest Danish Nazi party before and during The Flemish National Union ( Dutch: Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond, VNV) was a Nationalist Flemish Political party in Rexism was a fascist political movement in the first half of the twentieth century in Belgium. The Mouvement Franciste ( "Francist" Movement) was a French Fascist and Antisemitic league created by Marcel Bucard The Service d'ordre légionnaire (SOL was a Collaborationist Militia created by Joseph Darnand, a Far right veteran from the First World The Parti Populaire Français (French Popular Party (28th June 1936–February 22 1945 was a Fascist political party led by Jacques Doriot before and during The National Popular Rally ( French: Rassemblement national populaire, RNP 1941-1944 was one of the main Collaborationist party under The Greek National Socialist Party ( Greek: Ελληνικό Εθνικό Σοσιαλιστικό Κόμμα, Elliniko Ethniko Sosialistiko Komma was a minor The National Union of Greece ( Greek: Εθνική Ένωσις Ελλάδος E thniki E nosis E llados EEE) was an For the American artist see ESPO (artist The ESPO ( Εθνικο-Σοσιαλιστική Πατριωτική Οργάνωσις The Security Battalions ( Greek: Τάγματα Ασφαλείας Tágmata Asfalías) were Greek Collaborationist military groups formed during the Konstantinos Logothetopoulos (1878&ndash1961 was a distinguished Greek medical doctor who became Prime Minister of Greece, leading a Quisling government Ioannis Rallis (Ιωάννης Δ Ράλλης (1878 Athens - 26 October 1946) was the third and last Collaborationist prime minister of Nasjonal Samling (Norwegian for "National Gathering" or "National Unification" hereafter abbreviated as NS was a fascist party in Norway The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging in Nederland NSB was a Dutch Fascist and later national socialist The Slovene Home Guard ( Slovene: Slovensko Domobranstvo or SD German: Slowenische Landeswehr) SD for short was a Second World War collaborationist For the militiamen of the Military Frontier, see Uskoci The Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Movement ( Croatian: Croatian Home Guard (Croatian Hrvatsko domobranstvo, often abbr Dimitrije Ljotić (Димитрије Љотић ( August 12, 1891, Belgrade - April 22, 1945, Ajdovščina) was a Milan Nedić ( Serbian Cyrillic Милан Недић ( September 2, 1878 &ndash February 4, 1946) was a Serbian
- In a wartime cartoon by a Norwegian cartoonist published in Sweden in 1944, "Audience with Hitler", Quisling says: "I am Quisling", and Hitler's adjutant replies: "And what is your name?". Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately [1]
- In the 1944 Warner Bros. cartoon Tom Turk and Daffy, on Thanksgiving Day, Daffy Duck at first hides the turkey from Porky Pig and then tells Porky where the turkey is. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Daffy Duck is an Animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros The turkey hears this betrayal, turns toward the audience and simply says, "Quisling!"
- In Max Brooks's novel World War Z, "quisling" refers to a human that had broken down psychologically due to the presence of zombies and thus begun acting like a zombie. World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War (abbreviated WWZ) is a Novel by Max Brooks which chronicles a fictional Zombie These humans attack other humans mindlessly, but, ironically, are still attacked by normal zombies who can tell the difference.
- In the eighteenth episode on the first season of the television series House, House jokes angrily with Cuddy saying, "You know, there is a new biography on Quisling you might find interesting. House, also known as House MD, is an American Medical drama, which debuted on the FOX network on November 16 2004 " Cuddy doesn't understand, requiring House to explain and thus spoil the joke.
- In an episode of the British TV series Filthy, Rich and Catflap, Richie Rich calls the milkman "Quisling" while accusing him of carrying knowledge that could "put back the British game show 50 years. Filthy Rich & Catflap is a BBC Sitcom produced in 1986 and broadcast early the next year This article is about the occupation of milk delivery For the Phranc album see Milkman (album. "
- In the board game Renegade Legion: Interceptor, there is a character named "Ronald Quisling" who is an ingratiating but traitorous man, who seeks to backstab and replace his commanding officer. Renegade Legion is a series of Science fiction games that were designed by Sam Lewis, produced by FASA, and published from 1987 to
- In one of Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strips, Linus called Snoopy "Quisling!" after revealing his hiding place in a game of hide and seek. Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26 1922 &ndash February 12 2000 was an American Cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts Comic strip Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday Comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M Linus van Pelt is one of the characters in Charles M Schulz 's Comic strip Peanuts. Snoopy is a Fictional character in the long-running Comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M Hide and seek (abbreviated HandS, sometimes also called hide and go seek) is a variant of the game tag, in which one or more players search for the other
- The 1972 story Day of the Daleks, in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, sees the Doctor accuse the controller of Earth of being a Quisling for his collaboration with the Daleks. Day of the Daleks is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. A Dalek (, ˈdɑːlεk is a member of a Fictional extraterrestrial race of Mutants from the British science fiction television
- In the song 'Insect Nation' by comedian Bill Bailey, he describes Crabs — who would supposedly ally with the insects in enslaving humanity — as "Sideways Quislings". Mark Bailey where he was initially an academic pupil winning most of the prizes
- In the Irish rebel song "Patriot Game", the last line refers to those who signed the compromising treaty with Britain that left Ireland divided as "qwislings".
- On January 7, 1998 Norm Macdonald was a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman just after it was announced that he had been fired from Saturday Night Live. Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Norman Gene Macdonald (born October 17, 1963) is a Canadian Comedian and Actor of Scottish heritage David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American late-night Talk show host and Comedian and the host since 1993 Saturday Night Live ( SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute American Sketch comedy / Variety show based in New York City Throughout the interview, Letterman kept referring to MacDonald as a "Quisling" for not having fought with NBC executives to keep his job at SNL; this was made even funnier by the fact that MacDonald had no idea what the word meant. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's During a commercial break, MacDonald was given a dictionary to look up the word, and later in the interview he read the definition on the air. A television advertisement or television commercial (often just commercial or advert (US or ad (UK is a span of television programming produced A dictionary is a book of alphabetically listed Words in a specific language with definitions etymologies pronunciations and other information or a book of alphabetically
- In the David Thomas and Foreigners song 15 Seconds, Thomas refers to music journalist David Fricke as "one of the apologists, one of the Quislings/for the repopulation of the American continent with clones". Bay City is the sole album released to date by David Thomas and Foreigners David Fricke is a senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine where he writes predominantly on Rock music.
- In the Robert Silverberg novel The Alien Years, quislings were humans who collaborated with the Entity invaders. Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is a prolific American author best known for writing Science fiction.
- In an episode of the BBC's The Thick Of It, spin doctor Jamie accuses character Julius Nicholson of leaking political information to the press and calls him a "Mimsy bastard fucking Quisling leak fuck". The Thick of It is a British comedy Television series which satirises the inner workings of modern British government.
- In E. E. Knight's Vampire Earth series, the inhabitants of the Ozark Free Territory refer to humans who collaborate with the Kurian invaders as Quislings. E E Knight (born March 7, 1965) is a Science fiction and fantasy writer born in La Crosse Wisconsin.
- In Elvis Costello's album Armed Forces, the song Green Shirt contains the line, "cause somewhere in the quisling clinic/Theres a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes/Shes listening in to the venus line/Shes picking out names/I hope none of them are mine"
- In the video game Mass Effect, Ashley Williams claims she does not want her family name to "go down with the likes of Quisling" after she reveals that she is a descendant of a human general made infamous by his surrender to alien forces. Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus 25 August 1954 is an English Musician and Singer-songwriter, with Irish ancestry For the military meaning see Armed forces. For the Soviet sports society see Armed Forces (sports society Armed Forces Mass Effect is an Action role-playing game developed by BioWare for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows.
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A fifth column is a group of people who clandestinely undermine a larger group to which it is expected to be loyal such as a Nation. Benedict Arnold V ( – June 14, 1801) was a General during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Collaborationism, can describe the Treason of cooperating with enemy Forces occupying one's Country. Sayyid Mir Muhammed Jafar Ali Khan, formal title Shuja ul-Mulk Hashim ud-Daula Nawab Ja'afar 'Ali Khan Bahadur Mahabat Jang commonly known as Mir JafarDictionary
quisling
-noun
- A traitor who collaborates with the enemy, especially during the Second World War.
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