Wilhelm Gustloff: The WWII Tragedy That Claimed 9,000 Lives. Posted: May 1, 2025 ... A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that aimed for Venus is expected to crash back to Earth tonight.

On a freezing January night in 1945, a Soviet submarine unleashed hell on the MV Wilhelm Gustloff. ... What to know about the Air India plane crash that killed more than 240 people.

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 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 ...

— -- 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 … ...

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.

Little did they know the Wilhelm Gustloff would be blown to bits by 3 torpedoes in just a few hours. A timely story of refugees flocking out of a war-torn country got my attention right away.

Gustloff Case Inspires New Anti-jewish Charges in Nazi Press. November 13, 1936. ... Yugoslavian Jewish medical student, for the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff, Nazi agent, ...

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 ...