Vidkun Quisling

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (1887-1945) was a Norwegian army officer and politician best known for serving as Minister-President of Norway from 1942 to 1945, when that country was occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II. He was appointed to this position by the Germans and willingly provided much assistance to his country's conquerors. He was among the war's most notorious collaborators, and both during and after the war his name became synonymous with "collaborator." When the Norwegian government reasserted itself after VE Day, Quisling was arrested, tried, and convicted on charges of high treason, and was executed by firing squad in Akershus Fortress in Oslo.

Vidkun Quisling in Worldwar
By the time the Race's Conquest Fleet arrived in orbit of Earth, Quisling's willing cooperation with his country's occupiers had already earned him a certain notoriety throughout the Allied parts of Europe and North America (and the word "quisling" was recognized as meaning "collaborator in Germany, as well). A number of humans in territories overrun by the Race assisted the Race in their war against independent human empires and not-empires.  Among humans opposed to the Race, these people were known as quislings.  The term was applied to Moishe Russie by David Goldfarb in 1942, though it was withdrawn when Russie stopped assisting the Race.

When the Race withdrew from the United States, Rance Auerbach reflected that Europeans such as Quisling who had assisted the Nazis were known as collaborators. He had never expected the US to need to deal with collaborators, but in the aftermath of the withdrawal of Lizard forces, it did.