(The report also claims a direct hit on a U-boat. This was probably the attack that sank U-64 on Apr. 13th.)

(A quote attributed to the commanding officer of U-37, Kapitänleutnant Werner Hartmann, who had sunk the Stancliffe. Hartmann and U-37 had been mentioned in the German press on Mar. 1, 1940.)

[Contained in that report is a paragraph which was used in newspapers around the world. "Bremen Sunk With 15,000 Troops." Reports of Bremen being sunk had been published on Apr. 9, 1940, but in those reports only 1,300 were said to have been aboard. Now the number of troops has increased to 15,000. These reports were written on the strength of this exact rumor, that came from a Norwegian sailor [Engvard J. Olsen] who had been aboard a British freighter [Stancliffe] when it was sunk. It is not explained how a Norwegian sailor, at sea on another ship, may have come across this information, which even the Admiralty did not have. It is another case of a lie getting half way around the world before the truth can get its pants on.

Since the beginning of the war, the western press was obsessed with the famous German liner Bremen. This report is completely false as Bremen was not involved with the German invasion of Norway. Bremen was in dock at Bremerhaven, Germany under repair and there were plans to use the ship, but she was set on fire on Mar. 16, 1941 and destroyed. The ship was scrapped during the war and the steel was used for the German war effort. Some of her hull, which was towed to a sandbar off Blexen, Germany in 1946, still remains where it was discarded.]

(I don't know if there was some kind of incident involving Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, but he was not shot through the mouth for sure.)

(Sensible measures, which should probably still be in place today in every free nation.)

(Observers were apparently not as observant as they should be, this of course was completely wrong.)

(Using a time tested tactic, threats and intimidation, the Nazis put pressure on another country, Rumania, to expel and silence someone they did not want people to hear from. I wonder if this has a parallel in today's world. Maybe the digital Nazis like twitter, facebook, amazon, google, apple and the left-wing media?)

(In the end only two such battleships were completed, Yamato and Musashi. A third, Shinano, was completed as an aircraft carrier.)

(A headline writer who was paying attention and who added just the right amount of snark to his headline.)

(Jews who had escaped the Nazis, now back in Nazi hands after Germany invaded Denmark. Many if not most of them would die in the Holocaust.)

As the late, great Paul Harvey would say "Here is a strange."
(A Chicago census taker found a man who claimed he was 128 years old. Sayed Mehren, an Egyptian-American, who had papers, which the census taker and higher officials believed to be true, so he was officially recorded as 128 years old. Being someone who finds this claim to be absurd, I did some research and found a page on Gerontology.org [link] that claims his story was debunked, but they provide no evidence or even explain how they came to the conclusions they make. They have his date of death listed as Jan. 14, 1943 at 72+ years old, however, his death was reported in the press as Sept. 29, 1943.)

(605,5 Million: Greater Germany's Answer.)

Shot at Trondheim. English submarine destroyed by seaplane.

(That's how large the area is in Norway!)