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Summer 2022 Militaria Auction
Lot 478:
3 meal and concert cards given during a trip to Norway in 1934 in the German steamboat "General von Steuben". Coloured cards with the dishes and concerts given to the tripulation that was the direction of the Reichsbah in Dresden. This steamboat was famous for the catastrophe that happened in 1945 with thousands of casualties in the sea.SS General von Steuben was a German passenger liner and later an armed transport ship of the German Navy that was sunk in the Baltic Sea during World War II. She was launched in 1923 as München (after the German city, sometimes spelled Muenchen), renamed General von Steuben in 1930 (after the famous German officer of the American Revolutionary War), and renamed Steuben in 1938.During World War II, the ship served as a troop accommodation vessel, and from 1944 as an armed transport. On 10 February 1945, while evacuating carrying German military personnel, wounded soldiers, and civilian refugees during Operation Hannibal, the ship was torpedoed by the Soviet submarine S-13 and sank. An estimated 4,000 people lost their lives in the sinking.**********This article is sent from our office in Europe**********
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