The Tragic Sinking of the SS Cap Arcona, 5,000 Concentration Camp Prisoners Killed

More than four hundred people took part in the commemoration of the 662 dead of Camp Amersfoort on the Leusderheide on Sunday. Of the victims, 388 were executed, the remaining people died through "active neglect" or individual murder.

More than 7000 people died 80 years ago in the Bay of Lübeck at the Cap Arcona disaster. With the documentation center right in the city centre, a special place of remembrance is to be created. Karin Prien not only emphasized why this is also important for democracy.

The Tragic Sinking of the SS Cap Arcona, 5,000 Concentration Camp Prisoners Killed

SS Cap Arcona in 1927 Eighty years ago on May 3, 1945, the German liner SS Cap Arcona, serving as a prison ship, was sunk by Royal Air Force fighter bombers in the Baltic Sea. Almost 5,000 prisoners from Nazi concentration camps who were being transported aboard the ship, were killed. Tragically, the attack took place as the war was ending. It was three days after Hitler’s suicide and only one day before the unconditional surrender of the German…