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 Russians ...

The sinking of the Titanic may be the most infamous naval disaster in history, and the torpedoing of the Lusitania the most infamous in wartime. But with death counts of about 1,500 and 1,200 ...

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’s ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A discussion about the world's worst maritime disaster and why, to this day, it is a little-known story ...

On 30 January 1945, three torpedoes fired from the Soviet S-13 submarine sank the MV Wilhelm Gustloff cruise liner as it was evacuating refugees and soldiers fleeing the approaching Red Army from ...

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

Nazi newspapers continued today a campaign to arouse German sentiment against the Jews in connection with the trial of David Frankfurter, Yugoslavian Jewish medical student, for the murder of Wilhelm ...

“Winter, 1945. Four Teenagers. Four Secrets.” The voice of four young adults — Joana, Florian, Emlia and Alfred — tell a story leading up to the World War II tragedy, the sinking of the Wilhelm ...