Word: quislingist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost every day. Now the palace is the home of Major Vidkun Quisling and an entertainment center for Nazi bigwigs, enjoying far greater luxury than frugal Norwegians would ever have expected of "Mr. King." Early in the morning, on the King's birthday, Nazi Gestapomen, Norwegian police and Quislingist Hirden (henchmen) began patrolling Oslo streets. But there was no trouble until the Nazis noticed that hundreds of Norwegians were wearing flowers in their buttonholes and tried to pluck some of them out. Then arrests and riots began. In the center of the town be-flowered crowds gathered, sang...
...British were able to announce the destruction of fish-and whale-oil plants; the sinking of eleven ships totaling 18,000 tons, including an armed trawler and a good-sized supply ship; the capture of 215 Germans and ten Quislingist Norwegians; the carrying off of 300 Norwegian patriots who wanted to fight for Britain; and-here was the propaganda-the distribution to Norwegians of food, cigarets, chocolates, wool yarn and high heart. From Stockholm it was reported that the Germans answered this bagatelle with considerable fury: by fining the Svolvoerans 100,000 crowns, burning the homes of the escaped patriots...
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