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In the novel Men at Arms, by Evelyn Waugh, on page 155 in my edition, the Altmark is "... now dubbed 'the Hell Ship'. There were long accounts of the indignities and discomforts of the prisoners, officially designed to rouse indignation among a public quite indifferent to those trains of locked vans still rolling East and West from Poland and the Baltic."

Does anyone know if the imprisoned sailors were particularly badly treated (or was it just propaganda). Should this be mentioned in the article? Seminumerical 20:54, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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The page german-navy.de gives completely different specs (length 178,25 m), builder (Howaldtswerke AG Kiel) and slightly different fate after 1940 (departure for Japan on 09.09.1942, so it could not be able to use help of Soviet ice-breakers). Also the page [1] gives length of 582 ft (some 177 m) and 20,850 tons and confirms, that by March 1941 she was busy with Sharnhorst twins. Pibwl ←« 23:37, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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 In the novel Men at Arms, by Evelyn Waugh, on page 155 in my edition, the Altmark is "... now dubbed 'the Hell Ship'. There were long accounts of the indignities and discomforts of the prisoners, officially designed to rouse indignation among a public quite indifferent to those trains of locked vans still rolling East and West from Poland and the Baltic."