page_title: SS Cap Arcona
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: SS Cap Arcona / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Stolperstein, Otto Dunkel, Spreestraße 1, Berlin-Niederschöneweide, Deutschland English: "Stolperstein" (stumbling block), Otto Dunkel, Spreestraße 1, Berlin-Niederschöneweide, Germany
context_page_description: Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner and the flagship of the Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft. She took her maiden voyage on 29 October 1927, carrying passengers and cargo between Germany and the east coast of South America, and in her time was the largest and quickest ship on the route.
  In 1940 the Kriegsmarine requisitioned her as an accommodation ship. In 1942 she served as the set for the German propaganda feature film Titanic. In 1945 she evacuated almost 26,000 German soldiers and civilians from East Prussia before the advance of the Red Army.
  Cap Arcona's final use was as a prison ship. In May 1945 she was heavily laden with prisoners from Nazi concentration camps when the Royal Air Force bombed her, killing about 5,000 people; with more than 2,000 further casualties in the sinkings of the accompanying vessels of the prison fleet, Deutschland and Thielbek. This was one of the largest single-incident maritime losses of life in the Second World War.
context_section_description: Typhoons' Last Storm, Lawrence Bond, 2000.
  The Cap Arcona case, Günther Klaucke, Karl Hermann, 1995.
  Der Mann von der Cap Arcona, GDR TV movie, Erwin Geschonneck's account of the sinking of Cap Arcona, 1981/82.
  De ramp met de Cap Arcona, 2011.
  Nazi Titanic: Revealed, Channel 5 Documentary, 2012.
  Mussche, Kirmen Uribe, 2012.
caption: Example of "Stolperstein" (stumbling block) in Berlin-Niederschöneweide, Germany.
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