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 ...

Summarily, the M.V. Wilhelm Gustloff was a Nazi propaganda ship. But that’s what makes the entire affair so delicate. Despite its intended use, the ship was still loaded with over 10,000 people.

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 ...

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.

The in-depth story of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff sinking and how over 9000 drowned. It’s January 30th, 1945, and a 10-year-old boy named Horst Woit is fleeing the war. Germany is losing, and the ...

— -- The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst maritime disaster in history. Sunk by a Soviet submarine on 30 January 1945, the death toll on the Wilhelm Gustloff was equivalent to ...

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 … ...

Hitler's MV Wilhelm Gustloff refugee ship was carrying 10,600 passengers and the gold bars, thought to be worth £100 million today when it was torpedoed by Soviet forces Credit: Alamy. Rudi was ...

The Wilhelm Gustloff was carrying more than 10,000 civilians, 9,000 whom perished when it was struck by Russian torpedoes. Sepetys weaves an untold, heartbreaking story through excellent character ...