For the first time, Norway apologized for its role in the Holocaust. In a speech Friday on International Holocaust Memorial Day, Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said that it was time for his country “to acknowledge that Norwegian policemen, civil servants and other Norwegians took part in the arrest and deportation of Jews.”
Norway was led during World War II by Vidkun Quisling, whose name even today is synonymous with “traitor.” Quisling ordered the deportation of all Jews in the country in 1942. As many as half of Norway's several thousand Jews died in Nazi death camps.