[GingisK]

Gee, I didn’t know ships could adopt political ideologies.

[Fiji Hill]

Gee, I didn’t know ships could adopt political ideologies.

This one did, having been named Horst Wessel. The ship's namesake was a Nazi activist who was fatally shot by Communists in 1930.

The Nazis decided to turn him into a hero and a martyr, and a song that he wrote that became known as the Das Marschlied von Horst Wessel (the Horst Wessel marching song) became the party's theme song.

[knarf]

That was my first thought process