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SS Thielbek (1940)
The ''Thielbek'' was a 2,815 GRT freighter that was sunk along with the and the during British air raids on May 3, 1945 while anchored in the Bay of Lübeck with the loss of 2,750 lives. The ship was a passenger ship flying a white flag and had been commandeered along with the ''Cap Arcona'' to take on board prisoners from the Neuengamme, Stutthof, and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps. It was later revealed by the head of the Hamburg Gestapo that the prisoners were to be killed,〔Vaughan, pp. 154-156〕 and it has been suggested that it was planned to do this by scuttling the ships with the prisoners aboard.
==Background==
On 17 April 1945 the ''Thielbek'' was informed that they were to prepare for a "special operation", and the following day John Jacobsen, the Captain of the ''Thielbek'', was summoned to a conference by the SS along with Captain Bertram of the ''Cap Arcona'' at which they were ordered to take on board concentration camp prisoners. Both the captains refused, and Jacobsen was relieved of command of his ship.
The order to transfer the prisoners from the camps to the prison ships came from Hamburg Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann, who was himself acting on orders from Berlin. Kaufmann later claimed during a War Crimes Tribunal that the prisoners were destined for Sweden, however at the same trial Bassewitz-Behr, the head of the Hamburg Gestapo, said that the prisoners were in fact to be killed in compliance with Himmler's orders.〔
Embarkation of prisoners began on 20 April, with the Swedish Red Cross present. The ship's water supply was insufficient for so many people and 20 to 30 prisoners died daily. The prisoners, with the exception of political prisoners, remained on board for 2 or 3 days before being transferred to the ''Cap Arcona'' by the smaller vessel ''Athen''.
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