In January 1945, over 10,000 civilians and soldiers boarded the Wilhelm Gustloff, fleeing Soviet forces. Hours later, it was gone—torpedoed and sunk, taking more lives than Titanic, Lusitania ...

In 1945, during World War II, a Soviet submarine torpedoed the German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea, killing over 9,000, most of them war refugees; roughly 1,000 people survived.