The Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen Columbus, says the back of the card. Originally, you probably won't be stunned to know, it was named something else:

The Columbus, laid down before the start of World War I, was originally to be named Hindenburg. However, her then-sister, originally named Columbus, was handed over to British government and then sold to the White Star Line after the war as part of reparations in 1920. The Allies allowed the Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), her owners, to keep the remaining ship. NDL decided to give her the name of her departed sister, now the British Homeric. Construction, which had been held up by the war, resumed at Schichau Shipyards in Danzig, Germany.

They had more claim to Hindenburg than Columbus.

She was one of the first liners to have an outside swimming pool installed on her top deck, as well as a platform for night-time dancing.

It had an unusual ending: suicide.

At the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Columbus was ordered to return to Germany at once. The Royal Navywas on the lookout for enemy ships. Putting her passengers ashore at Havana, Cuba, her captain and crew sped to Veracruz, evading the British. In early November, they received orders to attempt a blockade run to Germany. On 14 December the Columbus departed Veracruz, escorted by seven American destroyers through the American coastal neutrality zone.

On 19 December the British destroyer HMS Hyperion sighted Columbus about 400 miles off the coast of Virginia. The still neutral American heavy cruiser Tuscaloosawas also in the area, and silently observed the two ships. Rather than surrender the ship, her crew scuttled her, and she burned and sank. Her passengers and crew, 576 crewmembers, including boys, stevedores and nurses, were taken aboard Tuscaloosa as rescued seamen, not as prisoners of war as they would have been had the British picked them up. Tuscaloosa took all personnel to New York City.

In 1939, 411 German nationals from the Columbus were sent to Fort Stanton, New Mexico. On 18 Jan. 1940, 512 crewmen were moved to Angel Island. In Oct., 8 officers were able to escape on the Asama Maru. After the end of war many returned to Germany.