Charisma from below? The Quisling Case in Norway

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Notes

1. H. F. Dahl, Quisling: A Study in Treachery (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p.329.

2. E. J. Berggrav, Front‐fangenskap‐flukt, 1942‐1945 (Oslo: Land og Kirke, 1966), pp.35‐6.

3. The many biographies and shorter studies of Quisling range from the two excellent volumes by H. F. Dahl, Vidkun Quisling: En Fører Blir Til (Oslo: Aschehoug, 1991) and Vidkun Quisling: En Fører For Fall (Oslo: Aschehoug, 1992), the biography by O. K. Høidahl, Quisling: A Study in Treason (Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 1989) and the early study by S. Hartmann, Fører Uten Folk: Quisling Som Politisk og Psykologisk Problem (Oslo: Tiden, 1959), to the apologetic work by R Hewins, Quisling: Prophet Without Honour (London: W. H. Allen, 1965). As Dahl (note 1) has commented (p.417), publications on Quisling have become quite an industry.

4. V. Quisling, Rusland og Vi (Oslo: n.p., 1940).

5. During the 1931 debates in parliament and the press comments upon them, Quisling was for the first time labelled a ‘fascist’ and a Nazi. See Dahl (note 1), pp.79‐80, 94.

6. W. Fyrst, Min Sti (Oslo: n.p.).

7. H. F. Knudson, Jeg var Quisling Sekretœr (Copenhagen: n.p., 1951), published in English as I Was Quisling’s Secretary (London: Britons, 1967).

8. E. Syversten, Erindringer (Oslo: n.p., 1982), p.34.

9. K. Steenstrup, Dilemma: Opplevelser, Minner og Meninger (Oslo: Cappelen, 1989).

10. H. O. Brevig and I. de Figueiredo, NS: Fra Parti til Sekt (Oslo: Pax, 2002).

11. Dahl (note 1), pp.154‐59.

12. H. D. Loock, Quisling, Rosenberg und Terboven: Zur Vorgeschichte und Geschichte der Nationalsocialistischen Revolution in Norwegen (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags‐Anstalt, 1970).

13. Dahl (note 1), p.180.

14. Ibid., pp.262‐71.

15. Anthi has analysed Quisling’s search for father figures and goes some way towards developing a psychoanalytical profile of the NS leader, much in the way that has been done in similar writings on Hitler. See P. R. Anthi, “Vidkun Quisling: Paranoid Konspirasjon og Apokalyptisk Forestillingsverden”, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 1 (1991), pp.12‐27.

16. The entire judicial process, along with a large collection of material related to the case, was published in Straffesaken Mot V. A. L. J. Quisling (Oslo: Utgitt på offentlig bekostning av Eidsivatings lagstols landssvikavdeling, 1946).

17. Dahl (note 1), p.330.