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Journalist Seidenfaden used his head. He landed in Oslo, headed for the nearest wireless office, and put his news on the air. A few hours later he escaped to Stockholm. His dispatch was the first definite information that the German fleet was moving on Norway. Luck, enterprise and brains, the three ingredients of newspaper beats, last week had given Erik Seidenfaden the first beat of the new war in the north. Mysterious Invasion...
Forty-eight minutes later a similar report from Stockholm via a British news service, Exchange Telegraph, finally reached the U. S. Forty-nine minutes later the British Broadcasting Corp. gave early risers in Britain alarming reports of Denmark's invasion. For confirmation, BBC quoted the New York Times...
While vague and wishful stories out of Stockholm insisted that Germany's lines of communication with Oslo had been cut by a British fleet, Veteran Stowe spent four days in Oslo (with Warren Irvin of National Broadcasting Co., Christian Science Monitor's Edmund Stevens) and watched five more Nazi transports nose their way up Oslo Fjord...
...Oslo by radio. (Next day the official Moscow radio quoted his story.) Then Leland Stowe fled the city. From Göteborg, Sweden, at week's end he reported his escape, reported from his own observation that German columns were pushing out from Oslo in all directions. In Stockholm, two days later, he told the whole fantastic story of Norway's occupation...
...October 1931 Karin was dying in Stockholm and Göring was at her bedside. A telegram came from Hitler saying that President von Hindenburg had consented to see him and asking Göring to go with him. When Göring arrived in Berlin he received word of Karin's death. Two years later, when Hitler was Chancellor and Göring was Prime Minister of Prussia, he held a State burial for her at Karinhall. Hitler walked beside the widower...