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...Gulbrand Lunde, Propaganda Minister and second in command of Vidkun Quisling's Government in Norway, Joseph Goebbels was a man to be admired. In mannerisms, gestures and work, the small, blue-eyed Norwegian tried to emulate his Nazi friend. First of the Quisling Cabinet to get a uniform, he copied his so closely from Goebbels' that in photographs it was hard to tell Lunde from Goebbels. Norwegians nicknamed Lunde "lille Goebbels," and knew him as a vain, ambitious, foolish man who had been an outstanding research chemist when he joined the Quisling Party...
Bombers broke cloud over the Skagerrak and came in 100 feet above Oslo in the brilliant sunshine. R.A.F. bombardiers sighted the University building where, two years to a day after he became head of Norway's Nazis, Premier Vidkun Quisling was haranguing a Nasjonal Samling (Nazi) Party rally on "The New Order in Norway," pleading for an army of 5,000 Norwegians to fight with the Germans on the eastern front...
...less at ease than when canoeing (see cut), screamed that the bombs which showered death and plaster on his Party rally came from "murder planes." The Norwegians laughed harshly. From eyewitnesses the story spread all over Norway and Europe that in the dash for the air-raid cellar, lo, Vidkun Quisling led all the rest...
From the Royal Palace in Oslo the unassuming King used to pedal his bicycle 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...
...does the Norwegian Lutheran (State) Church, which last week officially renounced and denounced the state of Vidkun Quisling...