SS Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a requisitioned auxiliary ship of the Kriegsmarine...

for a "special operation". The next day the SS summoned Thielbek's Captain John Jacobsen, and Cap Arcona's Captain Heinrich Bertram to a conference at...

SS Athen (1936), German merchant ship that survived the attack that sank SS Cap Arcona in 1945; afterwards registered in the USSR as General Brusilow and from...

(Gdańsk). Wilhelm Gustloff sat in dock there for over four years. In 1942, SS Cap Arcona was used as a stand-in for RMS Titanic in the German film version of...

disaster in history; and the sinking of SS Cap Arcona with more than 7,000 lives lost, both in the Baltic Sea, in 1945. SS Rex was bombarded and sunk in 1944...

luxury liners SS Deutschland and the SS Cap Arcona and two smaller ships SS Athen and SS Thielbek moored off Neustadt in Lübeck Bay The Cap Arcona had 4,500...

Hannibal (23 January – 8 May 1945). Evacuation of East Prussia SS Cap Arcona (1927) SS Stettin (1933) Eggleston & Rogers 2018, p. 154-159. Koburger, Charles...

the closing hours of the Second World War, several ships, including SS Cap Arcona, were sunk in the bay to the South of Neustadt. Almost 7,000 passengers...

(May 1976). "Steamers of the Past: The Hamburg-South American Liner Cap Arcona". Sea Breezes. Michael Janusonis, "VIDEO – Documentary just the tip of...

German-occupied Polish Baltic Sea port of Gdynia (renamed Gotenhafen), on board SS Cap Arcona, a passenger liner that eventually shared Titanic's fate; it was sunk...

launched in 1885 The German light cruiser Arcona, launched in 1902 The German luxury ocean liner, SS Cap Arcona, launched in 1927. The cargo ship, Kap Arkona...

Normandie in 1935 SS Leviathan (1914), a United States Lines liner and sister ship to RMS Majestic. Scrapped in 1938 SS Cap Arcona (1927), a Hamburg Süd...

camp. In 1945, he was one of very few who survived the sinking of the SS Cap Arcona which claimed over 4000 lives. After the war, he joined the Socialist...

capture of the area by the British army. Many were placed on board the SS Cap Arcona. This German ship was heavily laden with around 5,000 concentration–camp...

September 2023. Roy Nesbit: Cap Arcona: atrocity or accident?, Aeroplane Monthly, June 1984. Heinz Schön: Die Cap Arcona-Katastrophe. Eine Dokumentation...

launched in 1885 SMS Arcona (1902), a light cruiser launched in 1902 SS Cap Arcona, a passenger liner requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine during World War...

occasion, several honours were organized, including the over-flight of the SS Cap Arcona ship by two Do Js flying boats of the Condor Syndicate. The Dornier...

22, "The Other Side of the Moon"). Sachsenhausen concentration camp SS Cap Arcona (1927) ocean liner Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig Ernst...

1945, along with 10,000 other prisoners, during the sinking of the SS Cap Arcona, machine-gunned by mistake by the Royal Air Force. Jacques-Félix Bussière...

Bay of Lübeck when RAF bombers sank three ships: the SS Cap Arcona, the SS Deutschland, and the SS Thielbek – which, unknown to them, were packed with...

transport aircraft. USS Agamemnon HMT Aquitania SS Belgenland HMS Birkenhead SS Cap Arcona (1927) RMS Carmania SS Dorchester HMT Dunera HMT Empire Windrush...

shot by the SS SS Cap Arcona 3 May 1945 near Lübeck 070007,000 – 7,500 Prisoners from Nazi concentration camps killed when the SS Cap Arcona was sunk in...

fishermen. List by death toll of ships sunk by submarines MV Awa Maru SS Cap Arcona Laconia incident "The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru". lisbonmaru.com. Retrieved...

Army) Bay of Lübeck (5 wreck cemeteries with 352 Polish victims of SS Cap Arcona) Bergen Belsen (1414 graves) Berlin (several dozen cemeteries) Braunschweig...

Belgian cyclist. He was one of the victims of the bombing of the SS Cap Arcona and SS Thielbek by the RAF in May 1945. He was one of the prisoners that...

II. It was largely shot in Berlin with some scenes filmed aboard the SS Cap Arcona. It focuses on a fictitious conflict between "Sir" Bruce Ismay and John...

1918 RMS Canada 1848 Scrapped in 1883 SS Canberra 1960 Scrapped at Gadani Beach, Pakistan in 1997 SS Cap Arcona 1927 Caught fire and capsized in the Bay...

tragic fame in 1945 when a ship carrying concentration camp inmates, the SS Cap Arcona, sank when the Royal Air Force bombed her, killing about 5,000 people...

testimony at a British war crimes tribunal investigating the sinking of the SS Cap Arcona which resulted in the deaths of some 7,500 concentration camp inmates...

McDonald, Cassidy (October 20, 2024). "Holocaust survivors who witnessed the Cap Arcona bombing share their stories | 60 Minutes". CBS News. Whitaker, Bill (October...