£200
Travel Poster Cap Arcona Hamburg South America Cruise Ocean Liner. Original vintage travel poster featuring a stunning artwork depicting Cap Arcona ocean liner sailing on the water with people on the deck. SS Cap Arcona made the first voyage as part of Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft - Hamburg-South America Line from Germany to Buenos Aires in South America in 1927. During the World War II in 1940 it was requisitioned by the navy of Nazi Germany as an accommodation ship, later it was used as a set of a German propaganda movie Titanic, in 1945 it was used to evacuate German refugees from East Prussia before the advance of the Soviet Red Army, finally the liner served as a prison ship carrying Nazi concentration camp prisoners, before it along with Thielbek and Deutschland ships were bombed by the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force, which caused the sinking of all vessels in 1945. Printed by Art Institute Langebarte / Kunstanstalt Langebarte. Fair condition, staining, foxing, creasing, pinholes, tears, missing sheet? Country of issue: Germany, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 114x60, year of printing: 1930s.
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