MS Gripsholm (1924)
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MS Gripsholm was an ocean liner, built in 1924 by Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, for the Swedish American Line for use in the Gothenburg-New York City run. She was of great histo
Gripsholm in her original black-hulled livery
Image of a Polish passport used for repatriation from China to Africa in 1942.
NDL passenger ship Berlin starting from New York City in 1957
German postage stamp 1955 for issue in the year of renaming.
Karl Henry von Wiegand
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Karl Henry von Wiegand was a German born American journalist and war correspondent. Von Wiegand became one of the longest-serving American journalists stationed in Berlin, Germany.
MS Gripsholm (1924)
…May De Sousa, American actress famous for operetta; was repatriated from Chapei Civilian Assembly Center in Shanghai in 1943. Grace Drummond-Hay and Karl Henry von Wiegand, journalists for the Hearst newspapers, returned from a Japanese camp in Manila, Philippines in December 1943. The Great Ocean Liners: Gripsholm (I…
Von Wiegand in 1932
Journalists being photographed before a launch of the Graf Zeppelin, left to right: Karl H. von Wiegand, Lady Drummond-Hay, Rolf Brand, and Robert Hartmann