MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German ship that sunk in 1945 during World War II. Around 9,000 people were killed. MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a cruise ship but also served as a hospital ship and as a ...

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 Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed on Jan. 30, 1945, killing thousands of people. ... As a result, 10,582 people were packed onto a cruise ship that was meant to accommodate only about 1,900.

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 the most lethal shipwreck in history, but some details of the sinking remain unknown. Over 9,000 people died in the Baltic Sea on January 30, 1945, in an attempt to evade ...

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 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 ...

They make their way on board the Wilhelm Gustloff, ... But in 1945, there was a ship sinking that dwarfed the death toll of the Titanic and the Lusitania combined.