Quisling

Soldier holding gun to the head of a collaborator caught in the liberation of Rennes. Photograph by Bob Landry, 1944.

Quisling

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling [1887-1945] was a Norwegian fascist politican and officer. He was Minister President in occupied Norway from February 1942 until the country was liberated at the end of the war. He was executed for high treason after the war and his name became associated with traitors and collaborationists.