Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression C. Use of the Fifth Column: Quisling.
The Nazi employment of traitors and the stimulation of
treachery as a political weapon are now proven historical
facts. Should further proof be required, it is found in a
"Brief Report on Activities of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of
the Party (Assenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP) from 1933 to
1943" (007-PS). This was Rosenberg's Bureau. The report
reads:
"When the Foreign Affairs Bureau (Azbssenpolitische
Amt) was established on 1 April 1933, the Fuehrer
directed that it should not be expanded to a large
bureaucratic agency, but should rather develop its
effectiveness through initiative and suggestions.
"Corresponding to the extraordinarily hostile attitude
adopted by the Soviet Government in Moscow from the
beginning, the newly-established Bureau devoted
particular attention to internal conditions in the
Soviet Union, as well as to the effects of World
Bolshevism primarily in other European countries. It
entered into contact with the most variegated groups
inclining towards National Socialism in combatting
Bolshevism, focussing its main attention on Nations and
States bordering on the Soviet Union. On the one hand,
those Nations and states constituted an Insulating Ring
encircling the Bolshevist neighbor; on the other hand
they were the laterals of German living space and took
up a flanking position towards the Western Powers,
especially Great Britain. In order to wield the desired
influence by one means or another, the Bureau was
compelled to use the most varying methods, taking into
consideration the completely different living
conditions, the ties of blood, intellect and history of
the movements observed by the Bureau in those
countries.
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"In Scandinavia an outspokenly pro-Anglo-Saxon
attitude, based on economic consideration, had become
progressively more dominant after the World War of 1914-
18. There the Bureau put the entire emphasis on
influencing general cultural relations with the Nordic
peoples. For this purpose it took the Nordic Society in
Luebeck under its protection. The Reich conventions of
this society were attended by many outstanding
personalities, especially from Finland. While there
were no openings for purely political cooperation in
Sweden and Denmark, an association based on Greater
Germanic ideology was found in Norway. Very close
relations were established with its founder, which led
to further consequences." (007-PS)
There follows an account of the activity of Rosenberg's
Bureau in various parts of the world. The last paragraph of
the main body of the report reads in part:
"With the outbreak of war, the Bureau was entitled to
consider its task as terminated. The exploitation of
the many personal connections in many lands can be
resumed under a different guise." (007-PS)
The Annex to the report shows what the "exploitation of
personal connections" involved. Annex One to the document is
headed, "To Brief Report on Activities of the Foreign
Affairs Bureau of the Nazi Party from 1933 to 1943." The
subheading is "The Political Preparation of the Military
Occupation of Norway During the War Years 1939-1940". The
annex reads:
"As previously mentioned, of all political groupings in
Scandinavia, only 'Nasjonal Samling', led in Norway by
the former Minister of War and Major of the Reserve,
Vidkun Quisling, deserved serious political attention.
This was a fighting political group, possessed by the
idea of a Greater Germanic Community. Naturally, all
ruling powers were hostile and attempted to prevent, by
any means, its success among the population. The Bureau
maintained constant liaison with Quisling and
attentively observed the attacks he conducted with
tenacious energy on the middle class, which had been
taken in tow by the English.
"From the beginning, it appeared probable that without
revolutionary events, which would stir the population
from their former attitude, no successful progress of
Nasjonal Samling was to be expected. During the winter
1938-1939, Quisling was privately visited by a member
of the Bureau.
"When the political situation in Europe came to a head
in
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1939, Quisling made an appearance at the convention of
the Nordic Society in Luebeck in June. He expounded his
conception of the situation, and his apprehensions
concerning Norway. He emphatically drew attention to
the geopolitically decisive importance of Norway in the
Scandinavian area, and to the advantages that would
accrue to the power dominating the Norwegian coast in
case of a conflict between the Greater German Reich and
Great Britain.
"Assuming that his statement would be of special
interest to the Marshal of the Reich Goering for aero-
strategical reasons, Quisling was referred to State
Secretary Koerner by the Bureau. The Staff Director of
the Bureau handed the Chief of the Reich Chancellery a
memorandum for transmission to the Fuehrer." (007-PS)
This document is another illustration of the close
interweaving between the political and military leadership
of the Nazi State. Raeder, in his report to Admiral Assmann,
admitted his collaboration with Rosenberg (C-66). The second
paragraph of the Raeder report, headed "Weseruebung," reads
as follows:
"In the further developments, I was supported by
Commander Schreiber, Naval Attache in Oslo and the M-
Chief personally -- in conjunction with the Rosenberg
Organization. Thus, we got in touch with Quisling and
Hagelin, who came to Berlin at the beginning of
December and were taken to the Fuehrer by me -- with
the approval of Reichsleiter Rosenberg." (C-66)
The details of the manner in which Raeder made contact
personally with Quisling are not clear. In a report from
Rosenberg to Raeder, however, the full extent of Quisling's
preparedness for treachery and his potential usefulness to
the Nazi aggressors was reported and disclosed to Raeder.
The second paragraph of this report reads as follows:
"The reasons for a coup, on which Quisling made a
report, would be provided by the fact that the
Storthing (the Norwegian Parliament) had, in defense of
the constitution, passed a resolution prolonging its
own life which is to become operative on January 12th.
Quisling still retains in his capacity as a long-
standing officer and a former Minister of War, the
closest relations with the Norwegian Army. He showed me
the original of a letter which he had received only a
short time previously from the Commanding Officer in
Narvik, Colonel Sunlo. In this letter, Colonel Sunlo
frankly lays emphasis on the fact that, if things went
on as they were going at present, Norway was finished."
(C-65)
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I Chapter IX
Aggression Against Norway & Denmark
(Part 3 of 10)