Cap Arcona

The "Cap Arcona" was a large German luxury ocean liner, formerly of the "Hamburg-South America line". It was sunk in 1945, with the loss of many lives while laden with prisoners from concentration camps.

History

The 27,561 gross ton" Cap Arcona", named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, was launched in 1927. It was considered one of the most beautiful ships of the time. It was the largest German ship on the South American run. It carried upper-class travelers and steerage-class emigrants, mostly to South America. [http://www.arteprintas.ch/postkarten/caparcona.jpg]

In 1940, it was taken over by the Kriegsmarine and used in the Baltic Sea as an accommodation ship. In 1942 it was used as a stand-in for the doomed

The prisoners were of 28 different nationalities: American, Belarussian, Belgian, Canadian, Czechoslovakian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourger, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swiss, Ukrainian, Yugoslavian and others.

ee also

* "Junyō Maru" - Japanese "hell ship" torpedoed while transporting about 6,000 prisoners of war and forced laborers.
* "Ukishima Maru" - Imperial Japanese Navy vessel sunk while transporting 4,000 to 5,000 Korean forced laborers.

References

ources

* Roy Nesbit, "Cap Arcona: atrocity or accident?". Aeroplane Monthly, June 1984
* Benjamin Jacobs and Eugene Pool, "The 100-Year Secret: Britain's Hidden World War II Massacre". The Lyons Press, October 2004. ISBN 1-59228-532-5.
* Benjamin Jacobs, " [http://www.nizkor.org/features/dentist/ The Dentist of Auschwitz] ", University Press of Kentucky, Reprinted April 2001, ISBN 0813190126, chapters 17, 18.
* Günther Schwarberg: "Angriffsziel "Cap Arcona", Steidl Verlag, 1998 Göttingen, ISBN 3-88243-590-9
* Lawrence Bond, "Typhoons' Last Storm", documentary film 2000
* [http://tle.northwestern.edu/museum/catalog/cgi/search.cgi?DB=1&QUERY=1995.88.3&REGION=IDNUMBER& Drawing]
* Wilhelm Lange, "Mythos und Wirklichkeit" - "Eine "publikumswirksame" Präsentation der Cap-Arcona-Katastrophe vom 3. Mai 1945 (page 27)" 2/2000, in Schiff und Zeit, Panorama maritim N° 52
* Hal Vaughan, "Doctor to the Resistance: The Heroic True Story of an American Surgeon and His Family in Occupied Paris", Potomac Books Inc. 2004

External links

* [http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/rz3a035/arcona.html History of the tragedy]
* [http://www.nizkor.org/features/dentist/chapter-17.html Disaster on the Baltic Sea]
* [http://www.nizkor.org/features/dentist/chapter-18.html Inferno]
* [http://www.nizkor.org/features/dentist/appendix-a.html Appendix A]
* [http://www.cap-arcona.com/flashsite/cap_arcona.html Photo-montage with sound]
* [http://www.hamburgmuseum.de/image_d_e/sonder-hafen38/38-cap-arcona.jpgPhoto of the "Cap Arcona" (1938)]
* [http://www.compunews.com/gus/arcona2.htm Photos of the "Cap Arcona"]
* [http://perso.club-internet.fr/dstef/dstef/Album_photos/Pmgc/PMGCeng.htm]
* [http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/4505-bilder/cap-ohne-bug.jpgPhoto of the "Cap Arcona" (1945)]
* [http://clioweb.free.fr/camps/revert/revert.htm Lucien Revert fr]
* [http://divernetxtra.com/travel/germ798.htm Scuba diving around the wreck]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PZb3pLVsqY "Cap Arcona" (1927-1938). Video]
* [http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?30712 Cap Arcona Wrecksite]