WW2 KRIEGSMARINE NAZI TITANIC - CAP ARCONA - VINTAGE SOVIET RUSSIAN FILM POSTER

Description: "THE MAN FROM THE CAP ARCONA" Highly rare soviet original poster for the film "The man from the Cap Arcona". The film portrays a part of the life story of the main character Erwin Geschonneck. The background is the history of the Cap Arcona, which was accidentally fired on board by Allied planes in the Bay of Lübeck on 3 May 1945 with several thousands of concentration camp prisoners. Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner and the flagship of the Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft ("Hamburg-South America Line"). She carried passengers and cargo between Germany and the east coast of South America, and in her time was the largest and quickest ship on the route. In 1940 the Kriegsmarine requisitioned her as an accommodation ship. In 1942 she served as the set for the German propaganda feature film Titanic. In 1945 she evacuated almost 26,000 German soldiers and civilians from East Prussia before the advance of the Red Army. Cap Arcona's final use was as a prison ship. In May 1945 she was heavily laden with prisoners from Nazi concentration camps when the Royal Air Force sank her, killing about 5,000 people; with more than 2,000 further casualties in the sinkings of the accompanying vessels of the prison fleet; Deutschland and Thielbek. This was one of the biggest single-incident maritime losses of life in the Second World War. ........................................................................ ARTIST: Yudin I. DATE: 1984 EDITION: 55.000 !!! PUBLISHER: "Reklamfilm", Moscow LANGUAGE: Russian SIZE: in: 22x32 - cm: 56x81 CONDITION: Rolled Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

Price: 175 USD

Location: Clarksburg, Maryland

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