Landsvikoppgjøret, the Quisling Trial, stands for what its name carries. From 1940 through 1945, silence prevailed in a chapter of occupation; when that silence broke, fury awoke. The trial addresses those who sustained and collaborated with the German occupation of Norway.
Participants will adjudicate over a sweeping process of legal reckoning: tens of thousands of convictions and a national debate over justice, retribution, and reconciliation. Is it righteous to mete out severe punishment to collaborators, or is there more nuance to guilt and culpability in wartime? This committee asks delegates to confront the moral and legal complexities of post-war justice.