Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany assembled a small fleet of ships in the Bay of Lübeck to hold concentration camp prisoners, almost certainly with the intention of disposing of the prisoners by scuttling the ships off-shore. The vessels involved of the passenger liners Cap Arcona and Deutschland, and the vessels Thielbek and Athen. All were destroyed on May 3 1945 by British aircraft; most of the inmates were either killed by bombing or strafing, burned alive, drowned while trying to reach the shore, or killed by the SS guards.
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