The Worst Maritime Disaster of World War II-The Cap Arcona Sinking
The sinking of the Cap Arcona and two other transport ships is considered one of World War II’s worst maritime disasters.
A ship full of Allied prisoners of war (POWs), concentration camp inmates, German families, and Nazi SS men was sailing in the North Sea. Royal Air Force (RAF) bombers bombarded the ship, and it began to sink.
The SS men in the boat escaped with their families, but hundreds of innocent POWs vanished. It was a terrible mistake of the RAF to bomb their countrymen in World War II.
The Nazi Titanic
The Cap Arcona was a beautiful passenger liner that plied the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic . The Cap Arcona entered service in 1927 and made a voyage from Hamburg in Germany to Buenos Aeries.
She continued her service as a transport ship and was acquired by the German government in 1940. Joseph Goebbels, the German propaganda minister, funded the German version of the movie Titanic.
