Word: vidkun
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...Vidkun Quisling sobbed at the thought of Vidkun Quisling. In lachrymose lethargy, he listened as Attorney Henrik Bergh last week pleaded his hopeless case, tried to list his virtues. But even the conscientious lawyer had a hard time finding virtues in Quisling...
Then the trial was over. Seven judges and jurors (among them a plumber, a factory worker, a bookkeeper, a barber) retired to judge a man long ago judged by the world. For three days and three nights, Vidkun Quisling waited...
...Abraham Vidkun Quisling had provided the name for so many other base men that somehow he seemed almost to have lost personality. At the end of the first day of his trial last week in Oslo, only 21 hard-eyed Norwegians turned out to watch him as he was led back to his fortress-prison for the night...
...trial wore on, and a carefully planned case was laid before the judges. Vidkun Quisling was not getting the kangaroo court he richly deserved; this was an orderly procedure with full respect for evidence and the rights of the accused. The judges heard and read diaries, reports, letters, depositions by Nazi leaders now in Allied hands. The man who betrayed Nor way tried to answer them, when there were no answers...
...Vidkun Quisling was held in Oslo prison, reported to be suffering from megalomania...