The Berlin was chartered by the Nazis in 1939 as a Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude, KdF) workers' cruising ship and was used as a hospital ship later on in World War II.
It was also the scene of several notable shipwrecks, including that of SS Admiral Nakhimov in 1986.
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