Speech in Oslo, January 22, 1942: NS wins, and NS is right

Festive meeting in the National Theater on the occasion of the "State Act" at Akershus Castle.

By Rolf Jørgen Fuglesang.

NS members and comrades in arms, comrades from hard battles and hard work!

This day is for all of us, who through days and years have fought for the Nasjonal Samling's cause under the symbol of the solar cross and under Vidkun Quisling's leadership, the happiest day of our lives. (Applause.) All of us who are marching today in the ranks of the Nasjonal Samling, whether they are the veterans from the years of heavy toil or it is all the thousands who have joined during the last year and a half ¿ and they certainly have too through hard work and through hard struggle with honor earned to be called comrades in arms ¿ we all gather together in excitement, in sincere joy and with pride about the historic event in the life of the Norwegian people that has taken place today at Akershus Castle.

Our leader Vidkun Quisling has taken over power in the country and kingdom. (Strong applause, cheers, tactful shouts of "heil og sæl".) Norway's freedom and independence have been restored to the extent that the iron-hard necessity of the war makes this possible. (Applause.)

This is the day we fought for, the day we have been looking forward to. It was the promise of this event, the promise of Vidkun Quisling's Norway, that kept us going during the long and seemingly hopeless years of toil and struggle. We knew it would come, this day.

This day, we fought for it, this day we have been looking forward to. It was the promise of this event, the promise of Vidkun Quisling's Norway, that kept us going through the long and seemingly hopeless years of toil and struggle. We knew it would come, this day. We knew that in one form or another, and in one way or another, our leader would take over power in this country and thus open the possibility for the restoration of our freedom and independence for the implementation of our program and the building of the new Quisling Norway. (Applause.) It was this hope, and faith in our leader, that steeled us in the fight, that created our iron-hard endurance and our uncompromising will.

When Nasjonal Samling, on 17 May 1933, was founded, it happened during a period in the history of the Norwegian people that was characterized by disintegration, party struggle and revolutionary Marxist upheaval. Our country was divided into parties, into class and special interests, with a weighty and wobbly government. A group of party politicians squabbled with the country's most expensive interests in their hopeless struggle to underpin and stiffen their own position of power and a system which was doomed to doom by development itself. For these party politicians, their own power and leadership position were decisive. The people's most precious interests were pushed into the background. In order to secure their own personal position of power, they were ready at any time to sacrifice the people's existence and future.

And behind these representatives in our own country of a rotten and out-of-date system, stood the international occult forces ¿ international Jewry with Marxism and international big finance, which precisely in disintegration, in infighting, in division saw the means to achieve their goals ¿ world dominion, the fulfillment of the prophecies, the power over all the people of the world and all the riches of the world. The sum of these forces - our domestic power-hungry party politicians and the international forces behind it - this sum was overwhelming, we were aware of that. The power of the state, the power of money, the power over the press, literature, broadcasting, film, theater and in the whole of cultural life, the power over [¿], and an unrestrained will to exploit these means of power to achieve their own goals and to crush those who dared to defy the plans that had been laid here ¿ those were the facts that one had to reckon with. These were the things that the people had to reckon with, who here took up the fight against these forces which led the development and which, through the development, hoped to conquer power in the people and thus condemn it to destruction.

This fight, it seemed from the beginning of hopeless. Thousands of honest, justice-seeking men and women in this country were already more or less unconsciously aware of the conditions even then. But they considered the fight hopeless. The spirit of self-abandonment and defeatism threatened to steal the very life force of the Norwegian people and to ensure its destruction. It was the Nasjonal Samling which, alone and denied by everyone, took up the fight. We had what these opponents of ours lacked, despite all their material means of power ¿ we had an idea, and we had a man, a leader. (Applause.) And around this idea and this leader, a growing group of young, enthusiastic and self-sacrificing women and men who were ready to put everything in ¿ strength, abilities, personal career, even life itself, gathered from the start it was needed.

The party was created through struggle and loss. But already in the first year it grew into an organization that stretched from one end of the country to the other. And on a wave of enthusiasm it was carried forward to the parliamentary elections in 1933, which became the first bitter electoral disappointment that we had experienced. After the first euphoria, the long, hard years of struggle and toil followed. The road went from election disappointment to election disappointment, and often it looked hopeless. The Norwegian people did not want to wake up, did not want to understand their time and their salvation. But despite this, the party grew in inner strength and firmness from year to year. It cost an incredible amount of toil, of sacrifice and loss, of vilification and vilification, of ridicule and persecution, of terror and hatred for the individual to fight with the Nasjonal Samling's faction ¿ that time, as we have also seen it now, in the last year and a half.

But two things carried the work forward, steeled the movement through defeats and disappointments, and that was faith in the idea, and faith in the leader. (Applause.) And the small, but one hundred percent active and willing movement, it grew from year to year in inner strength. It reached greater clarity, it was imbued with greater will and courage, precisely through these external difficulties and defeats.

We probably had our dark moments from time to time, we who stood up in this fight, and there were probably some who broke down and fell away. But we who continued the fight, we could not show our responsibility towards our conscience. We had seen the truth, scales had fallen from our eyes. We saw the danger, we felt the forces at work. And we saw the way that led to salvation and restoration. We had to take on the struggle and the sacrifices. And above all, there was one thing that helped us through all difficulties and all hard times: the glorious example of uprightness and honesty, of hard determination, of never-failing will, of never-failing certainty of victory, which our leader showed. (Applause.)

No one was reviled like him. No one was persecuted like him. No one was the subject of such vile and systematic denigration and defilement as he was. But he was the leader, not only in name, but in benefit. And the disappointments, the opposition and the terror created in us this fanatical will to never fail him, and never to fail the cause. (Applause.) Where he led, there we would follow, regardless of whether it led to victory or defeat. And never once have we regretted this decision.

Through these years we who were young in the movement grew into men. And the man in the party was hardened into steel. The National Collection was created during these years.

On 9 April 1940, the storm surge broke over our country. Our people, through the criminal games of our party leaders and our corrupt government, were thrown into a hopeless and useless struggle ¿ not for the cause of Norway or for the interests of the Norwegian people, but for the cause of England and for the interests of international Jewry ¿ and as the last, desperate attempt on the part of our party political leaders to maintain a system in our country and a personal position of power which would have meant the downfall of the Norwegian people. Our country was overthrown in the calamity and had to tempt the bitter fate of a ravaged country placed under the iron law of war, deprived of our freedom and in danger of suffering the fate of a defeated nation.

Our leader's attempt, in the twelfth hour, to avert this bitter fate, was met with incomprehension and foolish reaction on the part of the Norwegian people, and with shady intrigues and subversive work from the remnants of the rotten party government in alliance with the English-oriented plutocrat circles that sat in Oslo. The national government, which alone could have prevented the complete collapse, was driven away on 15 April 1940. This meant the bitterest disappointment in the history of our movement, but also the beginning of a final and decisive battle for the Norwegian people, its existence and its future .

Today, February 1, 1942, which will forever be etched in the history of the Norwegian people, as the day when our leader once again took over government power in Norway, we can truly say that we have come back strong. (Applause.) In the time that has passed since 9 April 1940, the movement has undergone a rapid development. We have reached a powerful future, from the small groups the party has grown into a real mass movement whose power is not least demonstrated by the mass appeal today, and yet the grand march comprises only a fraction of our membership strength from the eastern Norwegian counties. If we really mobilized the weight of our membership, from Lindesnes to the Nordkapp, from Stadt and to the border in the east, then the jøssings in this city would see a rise that they have never seen in this country. (Applause, cheers).

And to these rascals I would say: Be careful that one day we don't really mobilize our power ¿ and use it. I doubt the bastards will find that day enjoyable. Therefore, do not count too much on our long-suffering, it does not last indefinitely.

But to you, comrades and comrades in arms, I want to say: Our unity is our strength. And each one of us should know that today, that we are strong. The power no longer exists in this country that can stand against our strength. But from our strength also springs our long-suffering. We can afford, members and comrades in arms, to be indulgent, to be long-suffering, but only up to a certain point.

But precisely today we extend a hand to all honest Norwegian women and men who are filled with real love of country. With what has happened today, it must finally be clear to everyone that NS wins, and NS is right. It was not empty words when we claimed that we would achieve our freedom and independence again through the Nasjonal Samling. We have shown in deed, in action, through painstakingly sacrificial and vilified work, that in just over a year we have reached so far in terms of safeguarding Norway's interests that our party politicians and jocks would never have reached if they toiled for human ages. We have brought our people up from their deepest collapse and degradation to freedom and independence. We are in the process of restoring its glory. We have secured the opportunity for a rich, a great future, materially and culturally, for the Norwegian people. (Applause.)

But if these great goals are to be fully achieved, if the work is to be completed as the possibilities dictate, it depends on the efforts and stance of every Norwegian woman and man today and in the days to come. That's why we're reaching out, that's why we're appealing to all good Norwegians: Let's work together! It is Norway's cause, it is Norway's honor and it is Norway's future. And on that issue and on those goals we can all come together. Meet us with loyalty and honesty, and we will show honesty and loyalty again. But meet us with battle, with dishonesty, with stealth weapons, and we will take up the fight and not give up until we have thinned every resistance. (Applause.)

This applies to Norway's case in the most fateful development crisis our country has experienced, and then we will not allow ourselves to be stopped or hampered in our struggle. We are the ones who have been right up until now, we are the ones who are right today too! We are the ones who judge the situation correctly. The road we are pointing to is the road, and the only one, that leads to the freedom of the Norwegian people and to a great and rich future for our country. No one can therefore expect us to show in the long run a well-behaved patience towards our fiercest enemies, who work as agents for foreign interests and foreign powers and mobilize all the means and forces at their disposal to prevent what alone means the salvation of people and country.

There is also another thing that all of us in the Nasjonal Samling today must be aware of, when we are faced with the historical event that has taken place; it is that this event, as significant as it is, is still not a fulfillment of NS¿'s goals and tasks. We are not yet at the final goal. We have not yet completely won. The fact that Vidkun Quisling has today taken power in our country, the fact that a national government has been formed and that the Norwegian people have thereby been assured of their freedom and independence, it means for the party's work, for the party's goals, only that we has reached a very decisive step forward towards the final victory. This means that all the external prerequisites are present to reach this goal that we have set ourselves.

But our ultimate goal lies in the name of our movement, Nasjonal Samling. Our final goal includes the gathering of the entire Norwegian people behind the national government that has been created today. Our final goal, that is the conquest of the entire Norwegian people for the Nasjonal Samling's program and the Nasjonal Samling's ideas, and the implementation to the last letter of the program on which our movement is based. Only when we have reached this goal is victory ours. Only then will we have completed the work for which NS¿ leaders laid the foundation stone for when the party was founded on 17 May 1933. Then the future of the Norwegian people is secured, not only as a free and independent nation, but as a strong, a great and a united nation.

And then we must be aware that every social system, every organization and structure of society, is only the external expression of a certain idea, a certain outlook on life. And this is the party's task at this time. Nasjonal Samling is the bearer of the idea.

Nasjonal Samling's task is today, after this event, exactly the same as it was yesterday and as it has been in all the years we have fought backwards. The party's goal, that is the conquest of the Norwegian people for the Nasjonal Samling's idea, for the Nasjonal Samling's program and guidelines, for the Nasjonal Samling's outlook on life. The party's goal is the further conquest of social power, that is, to ensure that the administrative apparatus from top to bottom is imbued with this outlook on life and this idea, so that it can act as a hundred percent effective tool for the implementation of the new system and the implementation of the Nasjonal Samling program until the last letter. (Applause.)

And finally, the party's task is to ensure that the Nasjonal Samling's program is carried out - all its points, all the thoughts and ideas, all the program items that the program contains. Nasjonal Samling as a party is the prerequisite and is the condition for the goal.

For those of you who are here in Oslo today have been invited to gather here from all the eastern Norwegian counties, when our other comrades in arms are at the same time gathered around the Høittalers and at the meetings in the quite country. Now this is not just happening because you are going to take part in the biggest and most significant event our country has witnessed for generations. It doesn't just happen to celebrate the day of joy and celebration that this day is for all of us who fight in the ranks of the Nasjonal Samling. Much more is happening because through the experience of this day and the participation in these historic events you will gain new power, new courage and new strength to carry the fight forward, to increase the work, to increase the efforts, to increase the energy and the will to fight in the decisive final match in which we are now standing and which is ahead of us.

In the time to come, it is important that all of us, in all branches and all parts of the party's organization, display an energy, a will to fight, a fanaticism, an effort like never before in the history of our movement. And it is the efforts of the individual members and trustees that together determine the victory and the size of the victory. With inveterate energy, with fanatical fervour, we shall now, each one of us, put everything in until the final victory, the decisive victory, is achieved.

Let's swear this before we part ways today ¿ you who are gathered here in Oslo today, all you thousands and thousands who are at this moment gathered around the Høittalers around the country ¿ let's swear that we will never give up before we have won our last victory and reached our last goal, before we have completed the work, fully and completely and decisively. (Applause.)

Let us swear that no difficulty, no opposition and no danger shall deter us from carrying out the cause which our leader Vidkun Quisling has raised.

When we lay down our sword and our tools, then we shall have created a foundation wall that is so solid, so strong and so firmly established that no forces in this world shall be able to shake it. When we lay down the tools, it happens so that the generation that comes after us can pick them up and can continue the work on the solid foundation wall that we have created, can erect the glorious edifice called the Norway of the future. (Applause.)

NS members and comrades in arms!

Let us remember the words that our leader has written in our struggle organization's membership book, "Our Principles": "No compromises with the people seducers and people corrupters, their teachings and their activities. Strict demands on ourselves and our own. The world and the peoples live and are redeemed by the action and faith of the best and selfless willingness to sacrifice. Whoever is not with us is against us. Our way of progress: Work systematically and concentrate your energies as much as possible on the essentials, call upon all available energies to the utmost for the specific main task to be solved. Always be on the offensive and don't waste time. Be persistent in firm intentions. And make the most of that victory! Henrik Ibsen says: Norway was a kingdom, it will become a people.

Let us finally, each one of us inwardly, send a thank you and a tribute to our leader. Without his effort, his willingness to sacrifice, his strength of will, and above all his brilliant intelligence and solid character, no one would have ever experienced February 1, 1942 here in our country. He is the leader and leader of the Norwegian people. We salute him in unbreakable fidelity and loyalty. With our leader at the helm, we know that our country faces a great and rich future. (Prolonged applause.)