Talk:Quisling

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I suggest merger with "Vidkun Quisling". a term named after a person can be properly explained under that person's history, and only so, because it has no meaning out of context.

I removed the reference to the Elvis Costello Song referring to the "Quisling Clinic" from the popular culture section. The Quisling clinic is the name of a modernist building in Madison, Wisconsin, and has no connexion to the Vidkun Quisling or any other use of the term "Quisling" for collaborators.

I strongly oppose merger into Collaborationsim.--Mike18xx 03:47, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

It was Dictionary.com's Word of the Day on July 9, 2006.

I'm removing this as irrelevant, as well as reminiscent of an ad. Naphra 20:55, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I think the Elvis Costello reference ought to be reinstated. The Quisling Clinic was operated by Vidkun Quisling's first cousin (according to his obituary: http://madisonchspre1990obits.blogspot.com/) and in any case Costello, as an Englishman, was referring to the incongruity (to him) of something being named after a Quisling. Pinglis 13:21, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Questionable Quislings

I removed a couple of examples from the list as they seem questionable to me:

  • Austria: the explanation (also in the linked article) wrong: the NS did not grow out of Austrian National Socialism - a proper example would be the Austrian Nazis but because of the fragile nature of the Austrian Republic it is questionable in how far one speaking of supporting a different country.
  • Czechoslovakia: the Sudeten Germans were, for a number of reasons, not well integrated into the CSR. Also they were a minority (in the CSR perspective) that pushed for separatism, for a ceding of their regions to another country, but not for subjugation of their country (CSR) to another country (Germany)
  • Slovakia: Hitler's allies here were separatists too that pushed for independence from Czech dominance.
  • Poland: again, the links points to ethnic Germans that had found themselves on the Polish side of the border after 1919 and not Poles collaborating
  • Romania: in the case of the Iron Guard I cannot see this putting a different country first either - sure they were collaborators but were they Quislings?

The intro already relates that the term became popular because Norway was the first country that provided an example of a "Quisling", which makes it questionable that anyone before Vidkun Quisling should be called a Quisling.

Whether Croatian nationalists should be included is of course questionable as well, but I will retain them for now. Str1977 (smile back) 16:54, 9 July 2007 (UTC)