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 | | From the end of 1944 the Kriegsmarine transferred her back totransport use and she was used to transport refugees from East Prussia tothe west of Germany. |
 | | On April 26, 1945, theCap Arcona was loaded with prisoners from the concentrationcamp Neuengamme and together with two smaller ships, the Thielbek and the Athen, was brought into the Lübeck Bay with the intention to destroy evidence of what happened at Neuengamme. |
 | | On May 3, 1945, the Cap Arcona, the Thielbek,the Athen and the passenger liner Deutschland floated unprotected in the Lübeck bay between Neustadt and Scharbeutz and were sunk by allied aircraft.Approximately 7,000 to 8,000 prisoners from the concentration camps (Neuengamme, Stutthof, Mittelbau-Dora) were drowned; any survivors were shot by the SS. |
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