Nasjonal Samling (, NS; ) was a Norwegian far-right political party active from 1933 to 1945.
The party celebrated its founding on 17 May, Norway's national holiday, but was founded on 13 May 1933. ==Pre-war politics== The party never gained direct political influence, but it made its mark on Norwegian politics nonetheless.
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It was founded by former minister of defence Vidkun Quisling and a group of supporters such as Johan Bernhard Hjortwho led the party's paramilitary wing (Hirden) for a short time before leaving the party in 1937 after various internal conflicts.
Olaf, painted on his shield. ==During the German occupation== When Germany invaded Norway in April 1940, Quisling marched into the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation studios in Oslo and made a radio broadcast proclaiming himself Prime Minister and ordering all anti-German resistance to end immediately.
In April 1940 the party probably only had a few hundred members, but membership rose to 22,000 in December the same year, and peaked with 43,400 in November 1943. After a brief period with a civilian caretaker government (Administrasjonsrådet) appointed by the Supreme Court, the Germans took control through Reichskommissar Josef Terboven.
Other important ministers were Jonas Lie (also head of the Norwegian wing of the SS from 1941) as minister of police, Gulbrand Lunde as minister of "popular enlightenment and propaganda", and the opera singer Albert Viljam Hagelin, who was Minister of Home Affairs.
It was the only legal party of Norway from 1942 to 1945.
However, the party leader, Quisling, was controversial in Norway as well as among the occupiers, and was denied a formal position until 1 February 1942, when he became "minister president" of the "national government".
In April 1940 the party probably only had a few hundred members, but membership rose to 22,000 in December the same year, and peaked with 43,400 in November 1943. After a brief period with a civilian caretaker government (Administrasjonsrådet) appointed by the Supreme Court, the Germans took control through Reichskommissar Josef Terboven.
Nasjonal Samling (, NS; ) was a Norwegian far-right political party active from 1933 to 1945.
It was the only legal party of Norway from 1942 to 1945.
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