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 ...
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History’s Deadliest Shipwreck
The Wilhelm Gustloff set sail across the icy Baltic Sea, carrying thousands of refugees desperate to escape the advancing Soviet army. Among them was 10-year-old Horst Wight and his mother, clinging ...
The Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed on Jan. 30, 1945, killing thousands of people—many of them refugees The victims of the worst maritime tragedy in history were not only Germans, but also Prussians, ...
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