'My night in notorious Nazi collaborator Quisling's cabin'

Would you rent a holiday cabin that was built for a notorious Nazi collaborator? Perhaps surprisingly, it's something you can do in Norway - and few people seem to mind. Scottish novelist Ben McPherson, who lives in Norway, found this lack of fuss hard to understand. So he went to investigate.

I think I might be annoying my Norwegian wife. "Don't you think it's weird," I say, "that I can just rent his cabin?"

My wife eyes me warily. She's the one who told me about the cabin. Now I'm accusing her country of a moral failing.

"It's just a cabin," she says cautiously.

"It's Quisling's cabin," I say.

When Norway was invaded by German forces in 1940, Vidkun Quisling was delighted to see them. He had based his National Union party on the Nazis, and was duly installed as a puppet leader by the occupiers. His name gave us the English word "quisling": it means a lackey, a traitor, a bootlicker. So surely his cabin should be off limits to visitors?