HATED QUISLING

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23288, 25 August 1945, Page 5

HATED QUISLING

Nazi Commissar For Norway Puppet Fuhrer Kept In Power By Hitler By Telegraph—N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright (8.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 23. When the trial of Quislihg was resumed to-day, the Judge produced accounts showing that accused, since 1942, had personally used 11,000,000 kroner, and had granted his friends and members of the partv sums totalling 50,000,000. The Judge asked Quisling what salary he received. The accused attempted to evad ■ the question, but when pressed replied: "About half what the King received.” Quisling claimed that it was not salary but money for expenses. He maintained that he had saved Norway hundreds of millions of kroner. For example, by paying the Germans, he was able to keep 260.000,000 from getting into their hands. The first witness for the prosecution was a German, who said he had heard that a Nazi political officer negotiated w'ith Quisling to form a new' government on the first day of the Norwegian invasion. Witness added that the German Commissar for Norway. Terboven, was $o tired of squabbling with Quisling in 1940 that he schemed to be given the post of heading the occupation forces of Britain, the conquest of wliich w'as scheduled for later the same year. Terboven hated co-operat-ing with Quisling, and told friends that Norway would be better off without the puppet Fuhrer. but Hitler ordered that Quisling be retained in pmver because of the difficulty of administering Norway without help from the Norwegian Government, also because Hitler felt extreme gratitude to Quisling for persuading him to invade Norway, thus forestalling the Allies. The next witness was a Jewish doctor, who gave evidence about the fate of 1000 Norwegian Jews sent to Germany, from which only 12 returned. Quisling, who was pale and agitated, told the Court that he had never heard about the German gas chambers for the Jews until the trial began.