High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nasjonal Samling (Norwegian pronunciation: , National Gathering, National Unification, or informally National Socialist Party), abbreviated NS, was a fascist party in Norway that was active in from 1933 to 1945. Founded by former minister of defence Vidkun Quisling and a group of supporters such as Johan Bernhard Hjort – who was to lead the party`s paramilitary wing (the Hird) for a short time before leaving the party in 1937 after internal conflict. The party claimed to have been founded on the 17 May, Norway`s national holiday, but was in fact founded on 13 May.