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In the icy chaos of the Baltic Sea during the final months of World War II, the cruise liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff attempted a desperate nighttime escape, carrying over 10,000 German refugees ...
Cruise ships and ocean liners have been a popular form of leisure travel for well over a century, with luxury seafaring still capturing the imagination of many a traveller to this day. Over the years, ...
About 9,000 refugees were probably on the ship, 5,000 of them children. The Wilhelm Gustloff was supposed to sail for Kiel, Germany with another passenger liner, the Hansa, and two torpedo boats.
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 ...
Then-17-year-old Rudi, the ship's radio operator, was said to have witnessed crates of the Nazi gold being loaded onto Wilhelm Gustloff at a port in Poland, Daily Star reported in 2019.
January 30, 1945 – The Wilhelm Gustloff sinks in the Baltic Sea after being hit by Russian torpedoes, killing more than 9,000 passengers and crew members.
It's surpassed by the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German military transport ship that reported 9,400 casualties after being hit by a Soviet Navy submarine during World War II, and the Doña Paz, a ferry ...
MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a cruise ship but also served as a hospital ship and as a floating barrack during World War II. Towards the end, it was used to evacuate German personnel and their families ...
According to IMDb, on January 30, 1945, little Hans Gudegast was one of the civilians aboard the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, a German-armed military transport ship that was evacuating German civilians ...