Word: quislingism
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To The Baltics. In countries outside the Reich the Germans were not so subtle. They ran into a wall of stolidity trying to convince Dutch burghers that a new Netherlands Empire awaited them in the scrawny Baltic lands of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Even the so far comparatively well-behaved...
Then the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, at its biennial convention in Minneapolis, urged its 536,000 members to give "full support to the war efforts of their country with their substance and, if necessary, with their lives." Reason for this shrill small voice: the anti-Quisling stand of their...
Presently he submitted a memorandum warning that a pro-Nazi Fifth Column threatened Yugoslavian unity and full mobilization in case of attack. War Minister Milan Neditch, now Hitler's Serbian Quisling, asked Mihailovich to withdraw his memorandum. He refused, and was sentenced to 30 days of military arrest for...
Like the unbreakable clergy of their country, they have earned a conspicuous place in the anti-Nazi Book of Martyrs. Three months later the fight began in earnest. Quisling ordered all pupils between ten and 16 to join the Nazi Youth Movement, all teachers to join the Laerersamband.
While their pupils were clubbed in schoolrooms by storm troopers, about 98% of Norway's teachers refused to sign up with the Quisling Union. Quisling closed the schools for a month. When that failed, he gave the go-ahead to the Gestapo. Arrests in Norway totaled around 2,000...