The Karlsruhe came under fire from the heavy artillery based at the Norwegian coastal Fortress Odderøya, but she turned in the fjord to deliver a full broadside action. The weather was in the favour of Hitler’s Blitzkrieg forces as an earlier storm in the North Sea prevented British naval forces from arriving in time to engage the main fleet at sea.īut the weather can be a fickle thing and it slowed the German advance, heavy fog obscuring visibility to such a degree that the attack was delayed by a full 24 hours.
