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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 ship...
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    Neuengamme and loaded on four ships: the passenger liners Deutschland and Cap Arcona, and two large steamers, SS Thielbek and Athen. The prisoners were in...
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  • Arcona may refer to: Cape Arkona, a cape on the island of Rügen, Germany Arcona, an alien race in Star Wars Cap Arcona, a German ship sunk in 1945 SMS...
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  • Lübeck with the passenger ships Cap Arcona and the Deutschland, which were sunk in the same air raid. At the time Cap Arcona and Thielbek were crowded with...
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    hold concentration camp prisoners. They included the passenger liners Cap Arcona and Deutschland, and the vessels Thielbek, and Athen. All were destroyed...
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    September 2023. Roy Nesbit: Cap Arcona: atrocity or accident?, Aeroplane Monthly, June 1984. Heinz Schön: Die Cap Arcona-Katastrophe. Eine Dokumentation...
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    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 concentration...
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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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    it the deadliest maritime 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...
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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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    600 troops and 1,770 gliders sent across the river. On 3 May 1945, the Cap Arcona, the SS Thielbek, and the Deutschland, large passenger ships in peacetime...
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    where she remembered seeing dead bodies on the shore (after the ships Cap Arcona and the SS Deutschland had been bombed and sunk) and the destruction in...
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  • clandestinely. After Hitler's death, Waldemar is deported to the ship Cap Arcona, which was bombed by British fighters. He jumps into the sea and manages...
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    exchange of fire between the two ships, the Cap Trafalgar began listing to the left, then sank bow-first. The Cap Arcona, arguably one of the most beautiful passenger...
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    stone Boulder (in Lindenring) for 2,000 women victims of Ravensbrück On a Cap Arcona incident memorial At the Neustadt-Glewe concentration camp memorial F-triangle...
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    killing 117 sailors and wounding 153 more. On 3 May 1945, three ships, the Cap Arcona, the Thielbek and the Deutschland, were sunk as a result of four attacks...
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    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 Klee:...
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    Operation Hannibal (23 January – 8 May 1945). Evacuation of East Prussia SS Cap Arcona (1927) SS Stettin (1933) Eggleston & Rogers 2018, p. 154-159. Koburger...
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    occurred: Wilhelm Gustloff and Goya were sunk by Soviet submarines, while Cap Arcona was sunk by British bombers, each sinking claiming thousands of civilian...
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    Cantabria 2 Sep: Conte Verde, HMS Diamond, HMS Duchess, HMS Suffolk 21 Sep: Cap Arcona 24 Sep: Clan Alpine 8 Nov: English Trader 24 Nov: Birka 12 Dec: Panay...
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    Cape Arkona (redirect from Cape Arcona)
    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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  • (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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    occurred in the 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...
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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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    against little opposition, occupied Lübeck on 2 May and Neustadt on 3 May (Cap Arcona). It finished the war by patrolling the surrounding countryside, collecting...
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    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 the...
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    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...
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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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  • dead as well as the worst single friendly fire loss (surpassed by the Cap Arcona disaster next year) and highest death toll inflicted in a single action...
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  • (3 tons, 1 × torpedo) 500 commissioned Hai (Prototype) 1 commissioned Cap Arcona, 1927 Deutschland, 1923 Goya, 1940 General von Steuben, 1923 Wilhelm Gustloff...
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