1939 : Iwrway-Qulslixrg X149 War: European Quisling Near Collapse- As Norse Prosecutor Outlines Murder Counts' , , Aug, 22 (AP). - I told the Germans I was against The prosecution hurled bitter i murdering him ." charges of murder today against Hansteen's widow, now a Com- in the deaths of munist member of the Interim Gov- two outstanding Norwegian patriots ernment, sat in a balcony directly --one of them . a kinsman of the across the room from the man who former puppet dictator. had asked the Germans to "re- He was charged with responsibil- move" her husband. ity in the killings by the Nazis of Quisling vigorously denied the Viggo Hansteen, outstanding young charges of murder in the case of Communist lawyer and underground Eilifsen, who was shot Aug. 16, 194.3, leader, and Police Inspector Gun- after Quisling refused to grant him liar Eilifsen, a relative of the de- a reprieve. Eilifsen was tried before fendant . a special Nazi court on charges of Incoherent, and at times on the disobedience after he had refused to verge of tears and close to col- arrest Norwegian girls and send lapse, Quisling cried out that he them into forced labor. was powerless to prevent the deaths He was condemned to death under ; of these men and many others, be- a new provisional law signed by' cause he was a puppet in the hands Quisling a few days After Eilifsen's of the German authorities. arrest . Prosecutor A n n a e u s Schjoedt Quisling asserted the situation charged Quisling with embezzle- was desperate, that the Germans ment and theft of private and per- were nervous and told him if he sonal property as the third day granted Eilifsen a reprieve he would of the treason trial carried the be shot anyway, with 10 more Nor- prosecution through nearly all of wegians as well. its indictment. "I could not take the responsi- Tomorrow the State is expected bility of letting Germans shoot even' to begin a parade of witnesses, more of my countrymen," he said. among them Gen . Otto Ruge, com- He pleaded lack of authority in anander-in-chief of the Norwegian the deaths of 14 other . patriots on charges of sabotage. Sobs Denials Quisling was held responsible also by the prosecution for deporting ; Quisling sobbed his denial of com- and thus causing the deaths of the' plicity in the death of Hansteen, Jews of Norway. one of the trade union leaders in- He admitted having passed a law' volved in a mass strike of 43 or- requiring registration of Jews, but ganizations in Oslo during the claimed he did not know of the de- spring of 1941 as a protest against portation of Jews until they were German occupation. already shipped to Germany in "But I never asked the Germans November, 1942 . to kill Hansteen," Quisling cried, ,,only to remove him . He was mak- ing things difficult for me." "Your acusations that Hansteen was a colonel in the Red Army and an organizer o£ a mass strike were not even true," the prosecutor said . "And they came at a time when they were particularly dangerous." The prosecutor asked: "Were you sorry for what happened?" and Quisling replied in a whisper, "Yes,