Execution of Vidkun Quisling - History’s Most Infamous TRAITOR who Sold his Country to the NAZIS

Vidkun Quisling was born on July 18, 1887, in Fyresdal in southern Norway. His father Jon Lauritz Quisling was a Lutheran minister and genealogist and Vidkun’s mother Anna Caroline Bang came from a wealthy family in Grimstad in Norway. In 1905, then the 18-year-old Vidkun Quisling entered the War College. Of the 250 cadets, he had achieved the highest score on the notoriously difficult entrance exams. From the War College, Quisling entered the Military Academy to pursue a career in the army. Vidkun Quisling graduated with the best grades in the history of the Academy since its founding in 1817 and the King of Norway rewarded him by inviting the young Vidkun to an audience with him. In 1911, Quisling joined the General Staff of the Norwegian Army. 3 years later on the 28th of July 1914, the First World War began. During the war, Norway was neutral. Quisling detested the peace movement, though the high human cost of the war did temper his views. In March 1918, he was sent to Russia as an atta