Quisling

Traitor, it derives from Vidkun Quisling. He ran Norway after the Germans seized it WWII. He met his end by firing squad at the end of the war. Supposedly capital punishment was reintroduced (it had been banned) to deal with him. The equivalent of the American Term Benadict Arnold.

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