Collaborator Quisling’s former Oslo home to house Holocaust museum

Deutsche Presse-Agentur
August 23, 2006 Wednesday 12:34 PM EST

DPA POLITICS Norway Wars Collaborator Quisling’s former Oslo home to
house Holocaust museum Oslo

The former Oslo home of Norwegian Nazi collaborator
Vikdun Quisling, whose name is synonymous with treachery, is set to
house a Holocaust museum, reports said Wednesday.

The Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities in
Norway is to use Villa Grande, where Quisling moved with his wife
Maria in 1941, for displays and research activities focusing on the
Holocaust.

Quisling was executed in 1945 after setting up a puppet government
to collaborate with the Nazis who invaded Norway in 1940.

Quisling and his wife Maria remained in the grandiose villa on the
Oslo fjord until his arrest in 1945.

The 3,000 square-metre villa was restored by the Norwegian
government and handed over to the Jewish community five years ago.

At least 2,100 Norwegian Jews died in the Holocaust.

The museum to be opened by Norway’s Queen Sonja and Princess
Mette-Marit on Wednesday will also feature displays on the
persecution of other ethnic and religious minorities in German South-

West Africa – now Namibia – Armenia, Cambodia, the Balkans and
Rwanda.

The building served as a college for nurses after the war. Parts
of the building which were refurbished by Quisling would not be
accessible to museum’s visitors.