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MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating civilians and military personnel from East Prussia and the German-occupied Baltic states, and German military personnel from Gotenhafen (Gdynia), as the Red Army advanced.
Wilhelm Gustloff, German ocean liner that was sunk by a Soviet submarine on January 30, 1945. An estimated 9,000 passengers were killed in the sinking, making it the greatest maritime disaster in history.
In the final months of World War II, 75 years ago, German citizens and soldiers fleeing the Soviet army died when the "Wilhelm Gustloff" sank.
Three of them hit home, striking Wilhelm Gustloff on the bow, stern, and amidships. The jam-packed ship was soon a scene of horror, with explosions, fires, children blown overboard, passengers slipping and sliding on the icy deck, and tumbling into the sea.
Sinking of MV Wilhelm Gustloff: World War II's deadliest ship disaster. The Soviet sinking of MV Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945, one of the greatest maritime disasters in history.
The German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff plowed through the choppy water, her cabins, decks, saloons, and even her drained swimming pool jammed with refugees. It was the night of January 30, 1945, and disaster awaited her.
The 200-foot long, 25,000-ton vessel was named for Wilhelm Gustloff, the late head of the Swiss Nazi Party who was gunned down a year earlier by a Yugoslavian Jew named David Frankfurter.
But with death counts of about 1,500 and 1,200 respectively, both are dwarfed by what befell the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German ocean liner that was taken down by a Soviet sub on Jan. 30, 1945,...
The Nazi Party’s propaganda machine gained a martyr, and he was given a state funeral in his home town of Schwerin, attended by all leading Nazis, including Hitler. Naming the ship after a Nazi...
The MV Wilhelm Gustloff, launched in 1937, was a German ocean liner initially used for leisure cruises. Requisitioned for military use during World War II, it was tragically sunk by a Soviet submarine in January 1945, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in history.