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QUISLING'S DENIAL Treason Trial Continued In Oslo N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 2.30 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 24. When the treason trial of Vidkun Quisling was resumed to-day the prosecutor, Mr. Schojedt, questioned the accused about his so-called adjutant, Franklin Knudsen. Quisling said that on April 9, 1940, the day of the German invasion of Norway, Knudsen had no position with him. He just came and reported to him. Quisling denied that he ordered Knudsen to broadcast messages recalling all merchant ships to Norway or to German-controlled ports'. He said that Knudsen acted ,on his own initiative. ■He was a shipowner and was concerned with shipping. Hagelin, Quisling's alleged agent, a German, said in evidence that he -knew Alfred Rosenberg. Witness had been under treatment for loss of memory since November, 1944. He denied all knowledge of the events described by the prosecution. His answer to every question, was: "I cannot remember." Hagelin, who was a Norwegianborn businessman, returned to Norway after the invasion and became Quisling's Minister of the Interior. He was awaiting trial for treason. He said he had never talked politics with Rosenberg, had never been a member of the Nazi party and had never been Quisling's representative in Germany. He had never worked directly under Quisling, or been responsible for Nazi terrorism in Norway.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 201, 25 August 1945, Page 6
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