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    • Anika Seemann, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    December 2024
    December 2024
    ISBN:
    9781009212298
    9781009212304
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009212298
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.63kg, 342 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Legal History, Area Studies, Law, Twentieth Century European History, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    New Studies in European History
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    Subjects:
    Legal History, Area Studies, Law, Twentieth Century European History, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    New Studies in European History
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    The Norwegian 'treason trials' were the most extensive post–Second World War 'reckoning' with wartime collaboration in all of Europe. Following the war, tens of thousands of Norwegians were sentenced for their wartime actions, including the notorious leader of Norway's collaborationist party Nasjonal Samling, Vidkun Quisling. And yet many wartime actions also went unpunished, including, in the vast majority of cases, violence perpetrated against Norway's Jewish minority. The Quislings examines how the Norwegian authorities planned, implemented and interpreted this reckoning between 1941 and 1964. In doing so, it looks at the broader political purposes the treason trials served, how these changed over time and the mechanisms that brought these changes about. This wide-ranging study argues that the trials were not driven by the agenda of any one institution or group. Instead, their final shape was the result of a complex process of weighing up demands for legal form and consistency against a fast-changing political and social environment.

    Awards

    Long-listed, 2025 First Book Prize, The Royal Historical Society

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