The Others
Vidkun Quisling’s name became synonymous with “traitor.” Pierre Laval – head of Vichy France and no less complicit – faded from common memory. Both were tried and executed for their crimes. Only one became a permanent warning embedded in language.
Laval was not an exception. He was one of many.
Quislings.info began as a simple exercise: exposing the “before and after” hypocrisy of elected officials. But power is rarely sustained by elected leaders alone. It depends on unelected enablers operating just out of view. Some appear on our American Quislings page.
When considering what some American figures have said and done, it is tempting to draw direct historical comparisons. That is not the purpose here.
The table below is not about labeling individuals as Nazis. It is about recognizing recurring patterns of behavior – how ordinary, sometimes obscure individuals can shed moral constraints as they rise, adapting themselves to power rather than restraining it.
These are not just historical figures. They are recurring roles.
|
Name |
Historical Role |
Behavioral
Archetype |
Role &
Archetype Description |
|
Fuhrer |
The
Messianic Narcissist |
The ultimate
authority who demands absolute personal loyalty over institutional norms. His
personal grievances become national policy. |
|
|
Propaganda
Minister |
The
Master of Alternate Reality |
Treated
truth as a flexible tool for power. Focused on "flooding the zone"
with propaganda to make dissent feel like treason. |
|
|
Reichsmarschall |
The
Amiable Psychopath |
Relied on
charm and a flamboyant public persona to mask a ruthless, grasping ambition
for wealth, luxury, and status. |
|
|
Vice-Chancellor |
The
Gateway Enabler |
A
traditional conservative who thought he could "tame" the radical
leader. He provided the establishment’s seal of approval. |
|
|
Armaments
Minister |
The
Technocrat |
Claimed he
was "just doing his job." Represents the danger of high-level
competence and efficiency divorced from moral conscience. |
|
|
Hitler s
Private Secretary |
The
Shadow Gatekeeper |
Controlled
access to the leader, ensuring only "loyal" voices were heard while
quietly purging rivals and internal dissent. |
|
|
Chief
of Command |
The
"Yes-Man" General |
A military
leader who abandoned the honor of his profession to become a
"lackey," signing off on illegal orders to prove personal devotion. |
|
|
Publisher
of Der Sturmer |
The
Dehumanizer |
Not a policy-maker, but a media figure who used his platform to
incite hatred and cast political opponents as "sub-human" enemies. |
|
|
Reichsbank
President |
The
Economic Legitimatizer |
The
respected banker who stayed to "save the economy," only to realize
too late he had funded a lawless and violent regime. |
|
|
Deputy
Fuhrer |
The
Blind Devotee |
A "true
believer" who replaced his own personality with that of the leader,
eventually losing his grip on reality in the process. |
|
|
Radio
Division Head |
The
Media Echo |
The popular
voice who didn’t create the lies but amplified them, making radical and
hateful rhetoric sound reasonable to the masses. |
|
|
Reichsfuhrer-SS |
The
Eager Executioner |
Transformed
the state s security apparatus into a personal army dedicated to a specific
ideological purity and the leader’s will. |
|
|
Chief
of RSHA (Gestapo) |
The
Architect of Fear |
Bureaucratized
terror, making the "disappearance" of political enemies a standard,
cold administrative task. |
|
|
Holocaust
Logistics |
The
Desk Murderer |
A logistical
expert who focused on the "efficiency" of his tasks, claiming he
was merely following orders and moving shipments. |
|
|
Architect
of Final Solution |
The
Cold Architect |
An
efficient, cold-blooded strategist who turned abstract hatred into a
concrete, systemic government policy. |
|
|
Foreign
Minister |
The
Vain Sycophant |
A former
wine salesman and social climber who prioritized proximity to power over
seasoned, ethical statecraft. |
|
|
Former
Foreign Minister |
The
Traditionalist Fig Leaf |
An
old-school diplomat who stayed in office to maintain the appearance of
normalcy and provide cover for radical policy shifts. |
|
|
Chief
Nazi Philosopher |
The
Intellectual Justifier |
Provided
pseudo-history and theory to give a veneer of intellectual respectability to
raw hatred and exclusionary policies. |
|
|
Governor
of Poland |
The
Legalistic Opportunist |
A lawyer by
trade who used the language of the law to dismantle it, justifying the theft
of property and life. |
|
|
Minister
of the Interior |
The
Statutory Enforcer |
Used
administrative rules, decrees, and bureaucratic "normality" to
dismantle civil liberties and institutional guardrails. |
|
|
Hitler
Youth Leader |
The
Youth Radicalizer |
Focused on
the emotional and ideological capture of the next generation to ensure the
regime’s longevity. |
|
|
Commissioner
(Netherlands) |
The
Puppet Administrator |
A local
figure who betrayed his own nation to serve as the administrative face of an
occupying, radical power. |
|
|
Labor
Plenipotentiary |
The
Exploiter |
Viewed human
beings as mere assets and units of labor, discarding all ethical
considerations for the sake of "production." |
|
|
Operations
Chief |
The
Complicit Professional |
A highly
skilled officer who lent his technical expertise to the planning of
aggressive wars and illegal operations. |
|
|
Grand
Admiral |
The
Successor Loyalist |
A career
officer who prioritized his own advancement and "loyalty to the
end" over the moral collapse of the nation. |
|
|
Grand
Admiral |
The
Institutional Enabler |
Put the
survival and prestige of his specific institution (the Navy) above the moral
duties of a citizen. |
|
|
Economics
Minister |
The
Financial Collaborator |
Integrated
the "spoils" of the regime’s illegal actions into the national
economy, making the state dependent on corruption. |
|
|
Labor
Front Head |
The
Populist Manipulator |
Used the
language of "protecting the worker" to dismantle unions and bring
the workforce under total state control. |
|
|
Chancellery
Chief |
The
Hidden Eraser |
Managed the
regime’s most shameful and "dirty" secrets away from the public eye
to protect the leader s image. |
|
|
Head
of Op. Reinhard |
The
Sadistic Implementer |
A figure
whose personal cruelty and zeal for destruction often outpaced the orders he
was given. |
|
|
Chief
of Gestapo |
The
Faceless Enforcer |
A career
policeman who weaponized law enforcement to serve a radical political agenda
rather than the law. |
|
|
Auschwitz
Physician |
The
Corrupted Expert |
An educated
professional who abandoned the ethical foundations of his field (medicine) to
serve ideological experiments. |
|
|
"Butcher
of Lyon" |
The
Local Terrorizer |
Relished the
use of raw, uncheckered power to intimidate, torture, and control a local
population. |
|
|
Treblinka
Commandant |
The
Moral Vacuum |
An individual who viewed the most horrific outcomes as a
matter of "clerical efficiency" and following the process. |
|
|
Gas
Van Designer |
The
Remote Killer |
Focused on
technical "innovation" to solve problems for the regime while
remaining psychologically detached from the victims. |