# @60minutes on TikTok

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.tiktok.com/@60minutes/video/7680270075282181389
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70041019-60minutes-tiktok
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-31T18:51:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** 60 Minutes (@60minutes) — https://gondola.cc/60minutes

## Caption

On May 3, 1945, the Cap Arcona was bombed, turning the floating concentration camp into a fiery tomb. In a tragic error, British Typhoon bombers — part of the Allied forces moving in to finish off the Nazis — had attacked the boat. Bill Niven is a British historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He told 60 Minutes the mistaken attack on the Cap Arcona and a smaller ship was one of the most wrenching tragedies of the war. "The prisoners knew that the war was nearing its end. I think a lot of them probably had hopes that they would survive, and that gave them the strength and the courage to hang on," said Niven. #WWII #history 

## Stats

- **Views:** 10,900
- **Likes:** 800
- **Shares:** 9
- **Comments:** 6

## Tags

history, wwii

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