“Cutter was sent from Scalloway (Shetlands) by the Norwegian Navy.
“Arms: Two Colt machine guns, two mounted machine guns, a small transmitter ... 1,000 kilograms of explosives....
“Purpose: Forming an organization for sabotaging strong-points, battery positions, staff and troop billets, and bridges....
“Führer order executed by the SD.
“Wehrmacht report of 6 April announces the following:
“In northern Norway an enemy sabotage unit was engaged and destroyed on approaching the coast.”
That was false, was it not?
JODL: I confirmed this communiqué of 6 April which included the contribution from the commander in Norway as I received it on 6 April; this brief formulation always originated with the commander at the front. But what actually happened is set down in this note of 10 May which, most unfortunately, I never saw, because on 10 May 1943 I traveled by train to Bad Gastein to begin a cure for a severe case of lumbago; and so, unfortunately, I saw this document for the first time here in Nuremberg. I am sorry, because this would have been one of the few cases in which I might have been able to intervene.
MR. ROBERTS: Yes, but, Witness—keep it in front of you—because you see the action was not taken on 10 May; it was taken before, or on 6 April. Look at the last paragraph:
“Wehrmacht report of 6 April announces the following: