Diary note dated Wednesday 6 September 1939. reported that the same day it became known that the Bremen of which her fate was unknown since leaving New York and falsely reported as captured on Sunday 5 September off Lisbon, Portugal in fact arrived at Murmansk, Russia at 09.00 o’clock this day.(1)
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The Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 29 August 1939 published an item dated New York, USA 29 August reporting that the German passengership was ordered to leave New York towards Germany without passengers. She was not allowed to depart before the United States Customs Service searched the ships for spies and contraband. The Het volk dated 18 September 1939 referred to a not confirmed tiding that she entered the North Russian harbor Murmansk. The De Volkskrant dated 18 September reported that her position was uncertain. Tidings reported that she was near the Azores, lying in an Icelandic harbor, seized by the British or now was Italy-flagged, but the latest news was that she was lying in Murmansk. Laid down by Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau, Bremen for the Norddeutscher Lloyd op de shipping line Bremerhaven-Southampton, England-Cherbourg, France-New York, USA on 18 June 1927, launched on 16 August 1928m completed on 5 July 1929, maiden voyage begun on 16 July 1929, left New York on 30 August 1939, underway painted grey and portholes and windows covered, arrived at Murmansk on 6 December, left on 10 December arriving at Bremerhaven on 13 December, heavily damaged by fire at Bremerhaven between 16-18 March 1941, broken up to the waterline, towed up the Weser and scuttled with explosives on 1 April 1946 at Nordenham.
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National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)
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