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    SS Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a ship of the Kriegsmarine, and finally a prison...
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  • 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...
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    for this purpose the SS assembled a prison flotilla of decommissioned ships in the Bay of Lübeck, consisting of the liners Cap Arcona and Deutschland, the...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    (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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Hannibal (January 23 – May 8, 1945). Evacuation of East Prussia SS Cap Arcona (1927) SS Stettin (1933) Eggleston & Rogers 2018, p. 154-159. Koburger, Charles...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • (May 1976). "Steamers of the Past: The Hamburg-South American Liner Cap Arcona". Sea Breezes. Michael Janusonis, "VIDEO – Documentary just the tip of...
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  • 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...
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    Cape Arkona (redirect from Cape Arcona)
    ships have been named after Cape Arkona: The German luxury ocean liner, SS Cap Arcona, launched in 1927. The cargo ship, Kap Arkona, owned by Deutsche Seereederei...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    SS Cap Polonio was a German 20,576 GRT ocean liner that was launched in 1914 and scrapped in 1935. She worked the Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft...
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    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...
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    transport aircraft. USS Agamemnon HMT Aquitania SS Belgenland HMS Birkenhead SS Cap Arcona (1927) RMS Carmania SS Dorchester HMT Dunera HMT Empire Windrush...
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  • 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...
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    Max Pauly (category SS-Standartenführer)
    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...
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  • Army) Bay of Lübeck (5 wreck cemeteries with 352 Polish victims of SS Cap Arcona) Bergen Belsen (1414 graves) Berlin (several dozen cemeteries) Braunschweig...
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    concentration camp inmates, the SS Cap Arcona sank in one of the greatest disasters at sea. In Neustadt there is a Cap Arcona Museum. Since January 2007 a...
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    Karl Kaufmann (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
    testimony at a British war crimes tribunal investigating the sinking of the SS Cap Arcona which resulted in the deaths of some 7500 concentration camp inmates...
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  • 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...
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  • British intelligence agencies 2041 Files relating to the sinking of the SS Cap Arcona British intelligence agencies 1945 2045 Transfer of Canadian radar technicians...
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    Neuengamme concentration camp. The sinking of several ships, including SS Cap Arcona, occurred to the south, in the bay, in the closing hours of WWII. Almost...
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  • his internment at Dachau. Other Gitter detainees perished when the SS Cap Arcona, by then used as a prison ship and moored off Lübeck, was sunk by the...
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    shipping in the Kiel-Lübeck area. The tragedy of the sinking of the SS Cap Arcona on 3 May 1945 happened on the Bay of Lübeck close to the port of Neustadt...
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