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The Norwegian ''treason trials'' were the most extensive post?Second World War ''reckoning'' with wartime collaboration in all of Europe. Following the war, tens of thousands of Norwegians were sentenced for their wartime actions, including the notorious leader of Norway''s collaborationist party Nasjonal Samling, Vidkun Quisling. And yet many wartime actions also went unpunished, including, in the vast majority of cases, violence perpetrated against Norway''s Jewish minority. The Quislings examines how the Norwegian authorities planned, implemented and interpreted this reckoning between 1941 and 1964. In doing so, it looks at the broader political purposes the treason trials served, how these changed over time and the mechanisms that brought these changes about. This wide-ranging study argues that the trials were not driven by the agenda of any one institution or group. Instead, their ?nal shape was the result of a complex process of weighing up demands for legal form and consistency against a fast-changing political and social environment.

The Quislings

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 11/30/2024
      ISBN-13 9781009212304
      978-1009212304
      ISBN-10 1009212303
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      European history: medieval period, middle ages

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Norwegian ''treason trials'' were the most extensive post?Second World War ''reckoning'' with wartime collaboration in all of Europe. Following the war, tens of thousands of Norwegians were sentenced for their wartime actions, including the notorious leader of Norway''s collaborationist party Nasjonal Samling, Vidkun Quisling. And yet many wartime actions also went unpunished, including, in the vast majority of cases, violence perpetrated against Norway''s Jewish minority. The Quislings examines how the Norwegian authorities planned, implemented and interpreted this reckoning between 1941 and 1964. In doing so, it looks at the broader political purposes the treason trials served, how these changed over time and the mechanisms that brought these changes about. This wide-ranging study argues that the trials were not driven by the agenda of any one institution or group. Instead, their ?nal shape was the result of a complex process of weighing up demands for legal form and consistency against a fast-changing political and social environment.

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