Johan Andreas Lippestad (19 December 1902 – 7 November 1961) was a

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minister in the NS

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Vidkun Quisling Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (, ; 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who nominally headed the government of Norway during the country's occupation by Nazi Germ ...

, from 1941 to 1945. He was responsible for the evacuation of Finnmark in 1944, together with Jonas Lie. In the post-war legal purges in Norway he was convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment with

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. He was released from prison in 1956.

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1902 births 1961 deaths Government ministers of Norway Members of Nasjonal Samling People convicted of treason for Nazi Germany against Norway Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Norway Norwegian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment {{Norway-politician-1900s-stub