I should add my dad hung onto the anchor until rescued. Ben Jacobovitz was a wonderful man. Known as Ben Jacobs also wrote about his ordeal on the Cap Arcona.
This guy is a fraud. He doesn’t know the first thing about the Cap Arcona. “Built as the German answer to Titanic?” Is he serious? Or is he trolling his audience?
@@giovannirastrelli9821 it actually was built as a ship as great as the Titanic. It was a very well know ocean liner - 1st class all the way. Celebrities etc sailed on it - it was the pride of Germany - then was commissioned by the Germany for military use -
Cap Arcona was built a decade after Titanic; by a different shipyard, in a different country, for a different route, and different passenger demographic. She was also half the size of Titanic and designed with a decade's worth of naval architectural advances. Why would Hamburg-America South want to associate their flag ship with an old ocean liner by a rival company that sank in the middle of her first voyage? As nice as Cap Arcona was, she was not the pride of German shipbuilding, especially once Bremen and Europa were completed only a few vears later. Cap Arcona's first class interiors were lovely, but the ship's main function was to transport immigrants to South America and the steerage facilities aboard her were notoriously terrible, a common trait amongst classic German ocean liners. Cap Arcona had no association with Titanic until Tobis used her as a set for the exterior filming of the 1942/43 film.
My father was a survivour of the Cap Arcona. I had the pleasure of introducing Robert when he spoke in Toronto.
I should add my dad hung onto the anchor until rescued. Ben Jacobovitz was a wonderful man. Known as Ben Jacobs also wrote about his ordeal on the Cap Arcona.
This guy is a fraud. He doesn’t know the first thing about the Cap Arcona. “Built as the German answer to Titanic?” Is he serious? Or is he trolling his audience?
@@giovannirastrelli9821 it actually was built as a ship as great as the Titanic. It was a very well know ocean liner - 1st class all the way. Celebrities etc sailed on it - it was the pride of Germany - then was commissioned by the Germany for military use -
@@ilutowiczJust because Cap Arcona was built to high standards doesn’t make her a rival/copy of Titanic. What a ridiculous mental gymnastic.
Cap Arcona was built a decade after Titanic; by a different shipyard, in a different country, for a different route, and different passenger demographic. She was also half the size of Titanic and designed with a decade's worth of naval architectural advances. Why would Hamburg-America South want to associate their flag ship with an old ocean liner by a rival company that sank in the middle of her first voyage? As nice as Cap Arcona was, she was not the pride of German shipbuilding, especially once Bremen and Europa were completed only a few vears later. Cap Arcona's first class interiors were lovely, but the ship's main function was to transport immigrants to South America and the steerage facilities aboard her were notoriously terrible, a common trait amongst classic German ocean liners. Cap Arcona had no association with Titanic until Tobis used her as a set for the exterior filming of the 1942/43 film.