'' Berlin '' was among the six light cruisers Germany was permitted to retain by the Treaty of Versailles . In the service of the newly reorganized '' Reichsmarine '' , '' Berlin '' served as a training cruiser , starting in 1922 . That year , Wilhelm Canaris was assigned to the ship , which went to Norway in November 1923 . In January 1924 , '' Berlin '' departed German waters for an extended overseas cruise , which was the first time a German warship had done so since the end of World War I . While on the cruise , Canaris met a naval cadet by the name of Reinhard Heydrich , who went on to become a close friend and eventual architect of The Holocaust . In 1928 , '' Berlin '' conducted a training cruise around the world , which included a stop in Fremantle . Training duties lasted until 1929 , when she was withdrawn from service . Starting in 1935 , the '' Kriegsmarine '' used '' Berlin '' as a barracks ship in Kiel . There , she survived World War II ; in the aftermath of the war , she was loaded with chemical weapons and scuttled in the Skaggerak to dispose of them , on 31 May 1947
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SMS Berlin