1. When Stalingrad fell in January 19 after 300,000 German soldiers had been killed, Goebbels banned the song entirely, saying that "a dance of death roamed throughout its bard."

2. On 30 January 1976, while rehearsing August Strindberg's The Dance of Death at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, he was arrested by two plainclothes police officers and charged with income tax evasion.

3. This book, in which among other things the Lübeck Dance of Death is described, made Nugent famous in Germany and was largely abridged in 1938, as well as appearing in new annotated editions in 1998 and 2000.