And then there were instructions to detonate parts of the ship, because it was considered an obstruction in the water.” So why do so few people know about the Wilhelm Gustloff?

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 ...

And she said, “I had passage on the Wilhelm Gustloff.” The day of the voyage, it turned out, fate intervened and she was not able to get on board the ship.

Such revulsion makes sense in this context, because the Wilhelm Gustloff —and this goes a long way in explaining how the ship’s tragic fate has escaped our historical radar—was a Nazi ship.

The ship had been hit by three Soviet torpedoes within an hour; the temperature outside was minus 18 degrees Celsius. The solace offered by the Wilhelm Gustloff was enormous for the passengers who ...

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.

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.

Furthermore, the Gustloff, though its toll is considered the highest, was not the only ship to go down in the Baltic during Operation Hannibal.