Editing Vidkun Quisling (section)

==Arrest==
[[File:Vidkun Quisling i arrest på Akershus festning, 1945. (8612497619).jpg|thumb|Vidkun Quisling in custody at Akershus fortress, 1945.]]
{{See also|Legal purge in Norway after World War II}}
The civil leadership of the resistance, represented by lawyer [[Sven Arntzen]], demanded Quisling be treated like any other murder suspect and, on 9 May 1945, Quisling and his ministers turned themselves in to police.<ref name="dahl371"/> Quisling was transferred to Cell 12 in [[Møllergata 19]], the main police station in Oslo. The cell was equipped with a tiny table, a basin, and a hole in the wall for a toilet bucket.<ref>{{harvnb|Bratteli|Myhre|1992|p=43}}.</ref>

After ten weeks being constantly watched to prevent suicide attempts in police custody, he was transferred to [[Akershus Fortress]] and awaited trial as part of the [[Legal purge in Norway after World War II|legal purge]].<ref name="dahl371">{{harvnb|Dahl|1999|pp=371–373}}.</ref> He soon started working on his case with [[Henrik Bergh]], a lawyer with a good track record but largely unsympathetic, at least initially, to Quisling's plight. Bergh did, however, believe Quisling's testimony that he tried to act in the best interests of Norway and decided to use this as a starting point for the defence.<ref name="dahl374">{{harvnb|Dahl|1999|pp=374–378}}.</ref>

Initially, Quisling's charges related to the coup, including his revocation of the mobilisation order, to his time as ''Nasjonal Samling'' leader and to his actions as minister president, such as assisting the enemy and illegally attempting to alter the constitution. Finally, he was accused of [[Gunnar Eilifsen]]'s murder. Whilst not contesting the key facts, he denied all charges on the grounds that he had always worked for a free and prosperous Norway, and submitted a sixty-page response.<ref name="dahl374"/> On 11 July 1945, a further indictment was brought, adding a raft of new charges, including more murders, theft, embezzlement and, most worrying of all for Quisling, the charge of conspiring with Hitler over the invasion and occupation of Norway.<ref name="dahl380"/>