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Thursday, August 8, 2024

Visit of Vidqun Quisling to SS Wiking


From left to right: Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling (leader of the German-formed Norwegian puppet government), SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Wilhelm Rediess (Höhere SS und Polizeiführer "Nord"), SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Felix Steiner (Kommandeur SS-Division "Wiking"), and SS-Oberführer Herbert-Otto Gille (Kommandeur SS-Artillerie-Regiment 5 / SS-Division "Wiking"). Barely visible behind Quisling is Sverre Parelius Riisnæs (Norwegian Minister of Justice). This picture was taken at Kalinovo, Uspenskaya, May 1942. Quisling had traveled all the way from Norway to get a close-up look at the conditions of his country's SS volunteers in the SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Nordland" / SS-Division "Wiking" (motorisiert). He walks through a Soviet village to the Norwegian volunteers' assembly point.

Source :
http://alifrafikkhan.blogspot.com/2014/03/album-foto-herbert-otto-gille.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vidkun_Quisling_hos_norske_frivillige_p%C3%A5_%C3%B8stfronten._(8616188540).jpg

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