The diaries: Quisling sealed Denmark's WWII fate

Politiken ^ | Peter Wivel, Europe Correspondent, Brussels

[Utah Binger]

The decision to occupy Denmark was taken at a meeting in Berlin on December 17, 1939 – three and a half months after World War II broke out and almost four months before German troops invaded the country on April 9, 1940. A series of personal meetings between Norway’s Fascist politician Vidkun Quisling and Adolf Hitler led to the decision.

Quisling was adamant that Hitler should deny Britain access to the northern Norwegian town of Narvik, and thus be able to control a Norway rich in raw materials. Quisling himself planned to lead a political coup and open Norway up for German naval bases.

The Quisling-Hitler meetings were arranged by Alfred Rosenberg, the German Nazi party’s chief ideologue and one of Hitler’s closest personal advisers. For the first time ever, Rosenberg’s diary was made public this week by the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. As the first newspaper, Politiken is able to publish central parts of the diaries for its readers.

[Utah Binger]

Alfred Rosenberg, the leading Nazi ideologue, kept a diary. The diary, which had been lost for years, has been found and published by the Holocaust Museum in Washington. The 425 pages of a handwritten diary provide a unique insight into decisive historical events. As the first newspaper in the world, Politiken has studied the Rosenberg manuscripts.

Traitors are more subtle nowadays but nevertheless they are traitors.

[DFG]

Thank you for posting this story.

[minnesota_bound]

At least they were punished unlike America’s traitors in politics and in the news media business.

Vidkun Quisling was executed by firing squad at Akershus in Oslo on October 24, 1945. Rosenberg himself was hanged as a war criminal in Nuremburg on October 16, 1946

[TexasRepublic]

I hope someday the name Obama will carry the same stigma as Quisling. Both sold out their country.

[Billthedrill]

“I have a feeling that in some way this Moscow pact will take its revenge on National Socialism.”

Well...gotta admit, he was right about that one. BTT

[OldNewYork]

The face behind the derision, interesting.

[dfwgator]

We have one in the White House.

[Utah Binger]

No shit.

[Utah Binger]

I lived in Denmark from 1960-63 so these stories are always good to hear. This morning on the Danish news they alluded to the lack of leadership by the idiot in the white house. Well duh...