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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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    (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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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...
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