Evacuating thousands from war-torn East Prussia, the Wilhelm Gustloff was struck by three Soviet torpedoes, sinking in under an hour with catastrophic loss of life. This video revisits the ...

On a freezing January night in 1945, a Soviet submarine unleashed hell on the MV Wilhelm Gustloff. Over 9000 lives—mostly civilians—were lost in minutes.

The Wilhelm Gustloff before its first departure in 1938 and after its test in the Hamburg harbor Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo By the time the Soviet Union advanced on Germany’s ...

The Wilhelm Gustloff interested Sepetys as a story about refugees because her own Lithuanian father spent nine years in refugee camps before being settled in the U.S.—but she had no idea when ...

Sunk by a Soviet submarine on 30 January 1945, the death toll on the Wilhelm Gustloff was equivalent to nearly six Titanics. Though most people have never heard of it.

On its final voyage, Germany's Wilhelm Gustloff carried soldiers and thousands of civilians, many of them children. Young adult author Ruta Sepetys revisits the ship's 1945 sinking in Salt to the Sea.

Wilhelm Gustloff sinking — 75 years on Volker Wagener 01/30/2020 Over 9,000 people died in the Baltic Sea on January 30, 1945, in an attempt to evade the Red Army.

The Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed on Jan. 30, 1945, killing thousands of people—many of them refugees 24,789 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others ...

In her first novel, the international best-seller “Between Shades of Gray” (Philomel, 2011), Ruta Sepetys was inspired by the history of her father’s homeland of Lithuania, where … ...