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Guest column by Historian
Quisling. A curious and somewhat whimsical sounding word. What does it mean? I’ve asked, and surprisingly few of my acquaintances knew the origin or meaning of the word; most of the responses were more or less humorous.. One acquaintance of mine said that it was a short quiz. Another made a humorous reference to the result of an amorous encounter between Mama Quis and Papa Quis. The word seems to have largely dropped out of our discourse, and is not often heard to-day. Some might argue that this is right, that old words, regardless of how cute they are that are no longer applicable to the world we live in today, should be retired. But the origin and meaning of the word “quisling” is neither cute nor innocent, nor is it at all funny. And it is as relevant today as it was when it was coined.
On April 9th, 1940, just over 79 years ago, military units of Nazi Germany invaded neutral Norway, supported by the fascist politician and head of the Norwegian Nazi Party, (Nasjonal Samling,) Vidkun Quisling, who then promptly staged a coup against the fleeing legitimate Norwegian government. Beginning at least as early as 1939, Quisling had urged Nazi Germany to invade neutral Norway, making trips to Germany to urge Hitler to invade Norway, and conspiring with German Intelligence agencies, providing information about Norwegian military plans and defences to the German military.
In 1942, Quisling became the Nazi-appointed Minister-President, under Reichskomissar Josef Terboven, and later that year, the Norwegian Endlosung commenced. While the numbers are a miniscule fraction of those murdered in Germany and Eastern Europe, about 1/3 of Norway’s Jews were sent to German extermination camps, mainly Auschwitz, under Quisling. Quisling supported the invasion of his country, overthrew his lawful government, and administered the displacement and murder of his countrymen, for political advantage.
It is worth noting that anti-semitism had, and still has, deep roots in Norway; Jews were forbidden to settle there until 1851, and only about 2100 Jews lived there before the Nazi invasion. Over 700 were murdered during the war; the rest fled the country, mostly to Sweden or England. Today there are two synagogues in Norway and about 700 Jews, both of which are subjected to attacks. In contrast, today there are about 160,000 Muslims there, over 3% of the population, let in by modern-day quislings.
So what is a ‘quisling’? A quisling is a traitor who collaborates with and supports a foreign invasion of his country; the term was coined shortly after the Nazi invasion by the Times of London, which referred to Norwegian collaborators as quislings. This term was commonly used during the Second World War, and is still occasionally used today- Paul Krugman recently referred to Donald Trump as a quisling for his supposed (and now shown to be non-existent) support of Russia.
Which begs the question- who are the REAL present day quislings among us here in these presently united States?
Who are those who have conspired to block the administration of US law, allowing millions of illegal aliens to criminally invade the US, and to remain here, committing further crimes?
Who are those who have funded and encouraged the above mentioned invasion of these presently united States?
Who are those who have treasonously refused to fund the defence of the borders of these presently united States?
Who are those who have, just as Vidkun Quisling did, uttered slanderous anti-Semitic diatribes against their supposed countrymen?
Who are those who have, just as Vidkun Quisling did, attempted a coup against their lawful government?
Who are those who have, for political advantage, subverted law and justice, aided and abetted murder, suborned non-enforcement of the laws, and supported invasion by large numbers of criminals and fanatics whose views and moral code is entirely opposed to the entire basis of Western Civilization?
What do you call such people?
Quislings, one and all. Traitorous anti-American collaborators with murderous fanatics, AND THEY MUST BE CALLED SUCH.
Nancy Pelosi? Quisling.
George Soros? Quisling.
Ocasio-Cortez? Quisling.
Omar-Ilhan? Quisling.
Comey/Rosenstein/Strozk? Quislings, one and all.
Anyone, of any political party, who is complicit in the ongoing attempt to subvert and overthrow the Republic by means of an invasion by illegal immigrants, is a Quisling.
Vidkun Quisling allied himself with those he thought would win the Second World War in the 1930s. He was rewarded by his Nazi masters, and ruled Norway during the German occupation. In 1945, Quisling was arrested, tried and convicted of murder and treason after the collapse of Nazi Germany, and shot in Oslo Norway in October 1945. Sic Semper Tyrannis.
Our modern day quislings would do well to remember his fate, although they certainly will not. So much the worse for them. “ Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.”
Will you remember the word?
Will you apply it where appropriate?
Quisling.
Excellent column Historian! More please! I remember a discussion with another 2AM activist. I was talking about Quislings and he said something to the effect everyone knows that, they learned it in schools. I was an excellent history student. I hadn’t learned it in school. He is maybe 5 or so years older than me. We knew the school system had changed but we just stared at each other. In those 5 years things were already changing. I had just learned about him from a show on the military channel.