World's largest ship Pieter Schelte sparks outrage as it arrives in Europe | Daily Mail Online 25/01/2015 21:53 Cookie Policy Feedback Like 2.4m Follow @MailOnline DailyMail Sunday, Jan 25th 2015 9PM 5°C 0AM 6°C 5-Day Forecast Home News U.S. Sport TV&Showbiz Australia Femail Health Science Money Video Travel Fashion Finder News Home Arts Headlines Pictures Most read News Board Wires My Profile Logout Named after SS Nazi war criminal: World's Site Web Enter your search largest ship sparks outrage as it arrives in Safari Power Saver Europe just as 70th anniversary of liberation Click to Start Flash Plug-in of Auschwitz is marked World's largest ship the Pieter Schelte has come to Europe for the first time It was named after the father of the owner of the firm who runs the vessel Emerged that Schelte was a Dutch officer in the Waffen SS during WWII Tried and convicted for war crimes and sentenced to three years in prison But was released early and went to Venezuela to set up his own company Jewish groups have reacted angrily after the ship's name was revealed Arrives in Rotterdam 70 years after infamous death camp liberated Like Follow By JENNIFER NEWTON FOR MAILONLINE Daily Mail @dailymailuk PUBLISHED: 11:19, 25 January 2015 | UPDATED: 14:51, 25 January 2015 Follow +1 Daily Mail Daily Mail 148 61 shares View comments DON'T MISS The arrival of the world's largest ship in Europe 'I never thought he'd has provoked outrage after it was revealed it was give up!': Perez Hilton named after a SS Nazi war criminal. shocks housemates as he 'quits' Celebrity Big The Pieter Schelte, which is so big it can lift oil Brother... but it's all part rigs out of the water, is docked in Rotterdam after of a secret task being constructed at the Daewoo Shipbuilding Most hated housemate? and Marine Engineering shipyard in South Korea. The cheek of it! Kate It arrived in Holland just three weeks before the Hudson flashes her 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz bottom in daring cut-out and just days before four Jews were killed in a dress at Versace Paris kosher supermarket during the Paris terror Haute Couture show attacks. The most risque dress of the year But as Holocaust Memorial Day nears, anger has erupted after it was revealed Pieter Schelte 'It's everything I Heerema was a Dutch officer in the Waffen SS. wanted and more': Katie The vice president of the Board of Deputies of Piper shows off her new engagement ring from British Jews, Jonathan Arkush told the Observer: doting fiance Richard 'Naming such a ship after an SS officer who was James Sutton convicted of war crimes is an insult to the millions Couldn't be happier who suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis. 'We urge the ship's owners to reconsider and +3 'I'm so fat, I'm ugly, I've rename the ship after someone more got spots': Pregnant appropriate.' Abbey Clancy talks Pieter Schelte Hareema, a Dutch officer in the morning sickness and The ship's arrival in Rotterdam has been Waffen SS during the Second World War, who has gigantic boobs (and trumpeted by energy company Royal Dutch had the world's largest ship named after him why husband Peter can Shell, which in a press release by Allseas look but can't touch) confirms it will be one of the vessel's first clients. Final photograph of John Donovan, a former Shell contractor who has wrote a book on the company's relations to the Coronation Street star Third Reich also told the newspaper: 'This public homage by Edward Heerema as the wealthy son of a Anne Kirkbride shows Nazi war criminal is an affront to the relatives of tens of millions of souls who perished at the hands of her laughing with family Nazi Germany.' on Christmas day - just weeks before her Schelte was the father of Dutchman Edward Heerema, the owner of company Allseas, who unexpected death commissioned the building of the ship. Maybe she's trying to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2925389/Outrage-emerges-world-s-largest-ship-Pieter-Schelte-named-SS-Nazi-war-criminal.html Page 1 of 22 World's largest ship Pieter Schelte sparks outrage as it arrives in Europe | Daily Mail Online 25/01/2015 21:53 up her game? 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Rita Ora dons dazzling footwear designed by her beau's dad Tommy Hilfiger Made statement in LA Hell for leather: However, he is reported to have left the SS in 1944 as he lost sympathy with the Nazis and joined a Heather Mills dons resistance party, fleeing to Switzerland. plunging waistcoat and thigh-high boots at ski He was tried and sentenced to three years in prison for war crimes after the war but was released race party in Austria early and went to Venezuela where he set up a engineering company. Head-to-toe leather for Kitz Race Night event His namesake ship measures a staggering THE SS OFFICER WHO SET UP AN 1,253ft (382 metres) long and 407ft (124 metres) ENGINEERING COMPANY wide, making it almost as long as the Empire Ready for the runway! State Building is tall and wider than the height of Kim Kardashian styles Schelte was an officer in the Waffen SS during out leather and fur look Big Ben. the Second World War, when he acted as a as she arrives at airport It cost £1.9 billion ($3.1 billion) to build and is director for the Dutch East Company. with husband Kanye West powered by 11.2 megawatt engines connected to He married his wife in The Hague during the 13 Rolls Royce 5.5 megawatt thrusters. war and was pictured wearing his SS uniform, Topsides - the upper section of oil rigs - weighing with the ceremony attended by other high- ranking SS figures. 'She terrifies everyone up to 48,000 tons can be lifted by the behemoth, except me': Katie while it will also be able to lift jackets - the legs - It is thought he was responsible for recruiting Hopkins' husband Mark of rigs weighing up to 25,000 tonnes. Dutch men to put into forced labour in Nazi- Cross says he's the occupied territories in Eastern Europe. only man who's NOT The ship can then transport both the top and scared of the CBB star bottom sections of the oil rig simultaneously and However, he is reported to have left the SS Been married four years take it back to port. after losing sympathy with the Nazis in 1944 It can even raise and lower itself in the water by and joined a resistance party, fleeing to Kieran Hayler goes 82ft (25 metres) in order to cope with the huge Switzerland. shopping at garden centre while wife Katie weight demands of moving an oil rig. He was tried and sentenced to three years in Price is in CBB house... It can reach speeds of 14 knots (16.1 mph or prison for war crimes but was released early as former fling Jane 25.9 km/h) and has space for a crew of 571 and went to Venezuela, where he set up a Pountney heads out in leopard print coat people.