At the urging of Ribbentrop, Admiral Raeder invited the American naval attaché to come to see him on
September 16 and stated that he had now received reports from all the submarines, “as a result of which it was definitely established that the
Athenia had not been sunk by a German U-boat.” He asked him to so inform his government, which the attaché promptly did.
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Hey, isn’t that attaché Commander Victor Henry?
