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    The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
    The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
    The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
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    The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II

    Written by Robert P. Watson

    Narrated by Tom Perkins

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    Built in 1927, the German ocean liner Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the Titanic. When the Nazis seized control, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport. Hitler's minister, Joseph Goebbels, later cast her as a "star" in the epic propaganda film about the sinking of the legendary Titanic. In the Third Reich's final desperate days, when SS Cap Arcona was mistakenly bombed by the British Air Force, concentration camp prisoners packed the ship.

    Although the British government sealed many documents pertaining to the ship's sinking, Robert P. Watson has unearthed forgotten records and conducted many interviews. The Nazi Titanic is a riveting and astonishing story about an enigmatic ship that played a devastating role in World War II.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781515972211
    The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
    Author

    Robert P. Watson

    Robert P. Watson is a professor, author, frequent media commentator, and former candidate for the United States House of Representatives. He has taught at Northern Arizona University, the University of Hawaii-Hilo, and with the Junior Statesman Foundation at Yale, Stanford, and Georgetown. In 2007 he joined Lynn University as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University.

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    • 4/5
      A Holocaust story behind a propaganda farce. I learned a lot I did not know previously about the vicious work of Nazis as well as Russian soldiers. I would have given it 5 stars but the editing is pretty loose with many facts and relationships repeated in adjoining chapters.
    • 4/5
      After World War I, Bloom and Voss, one of Germany’s largest ship builders constructed an ocean liner in 1928, the Cap Arcona, to rival the size and glamour of the ill fated Titanic. It was a success and it spent many years transporting wealthy Germans and other Europeans from Europe to South America. At the onset of the war in 1939, the Cap Arcona was anchored on the Baltic Sea near Poland. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda decided to produce a film about the Titanic and used the Cap Arcona as the centrepiece. The Cap Arcona is the background of this amazing but horrifying story of the well known atrocities the Nazi regime visited upon millions of Europeans. The back story reveals details about the prison camp in Neuegamme and important information about Nazi leaders, ship captains, army officers, guards, allies and resistance groups.As the war is nearing its end, the Nazis need to hide evidence of their war crimes and either execute or release prisoners from their camps and transport or march them to Neustadt and Luebek on the Baltic coast. Here they will be placed on ocean liners such as the Cap Arcona. The plan was to bomb the ships and blame the allies but on May 3, 1945 the RAF obliterates most of the ships in the harbour.The last chapter provides a summary of the fate of many of the peopleinvolved in the rise and fall of the ship.Worth reading
    • 4/5
      Whenever you think you have reached the bottom of Nazi barbarity, someone writes a book exposing a new atrocity. In this case, it is the last week of the war. Hitler has committed suicide. To keep the secret of the "final solution" from the Allies and Russians, Himmler orders all concentration camps to be evacuated. And so death marches begin from multiple points toward the one area in Germany still safe for Nazis: the Baltic coast. There, the inmates who have survived the marches are forced into the holds of ships and barges; the intention may have been to move them to Norway to escape notice or, on a bleaker note to sink the ships killing all the prisoners. But then the Allies progress faster than expected, and in a terrible act committed in "the fog of war," British fighters sink many of the ships loaded with prisoners (or, doing the Nazis' evil work for them). The author estimates that upwards of 10,000 were killed in this fashion. The beginning of this work is hesitant and not very compelling; Watson gets into his rhythm when he discusses the origins of this final brutality and by taking readers through the air attack. Some prisoners escaped and swam toward the shore where SS guards, naval cadets, and old men in the Home Guard shot them or clubbed them like baby seals. One of the ships serving as a death camp was originally a German pre-war response to Titanic and regularly sailed from Hamburg to Rio, Buenos Aires and other South American ports. It was the height of luxury transformed by the war into the nadir of humanity.