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.

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.

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 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 ...