Popular Culture
While no movie was ever made regarding the full story of the sinking, the film Arise, My Love (1940), directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland, had a sequence involving the torpedoing of the liner.
The sinking of the Athenia is mentioned in the song "Rollerskate Skinny," written by Rhett Miller, and performed by his band The Old 97's.
In the novel The Man Who Could Not Shudder, Dr Fell announces the end of story by showing his audience a newspaper bearing headline "LINER ATHENIA: FULL LIST OF VICTIMS". He means to say that the war has begun and the truth of the mystery is now unlikely to surface.
Recent extensive research concerning the incident appears in Cay Rademacher's 2009 book Drei Tage im September - die letzte Fahrt der Athenia, 1939 published by Mareverlag, Hamburg.
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