SS Cap Arcona

SS Cap Arcona

Just a day before the German government surrendered in 1945, the British Royal Air Force mistakenly believed that the ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was a war ship and sank it. The ship was carrying 7,000 women, children and prisoners who were Holocaust survivors.

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