A disaster in Lübeck Bay: an analysis of the tragic sinking of the Cap Arcona, 3 May 1945
Journal: Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository)
Year: 2017

This dissertation aims to contextualise the history of the Cap Arcona, providing not only the first detailed reconstruction of the events which led to the incarceration of concentration camp prisoners on the ship, but also exploring British motives for its bombing. It argues, firstly, that the imprisonment of the former camp inmates on the Cap Arcona was not undertaken with a particular plan in mind, but in desperate reaction to a chain of circumstances: the rapid advance of the Allies, the hurr