On a freezing January night in 1945, a Soviet submarine unleashed hell on the MV Wilhelm Gustloff. Over 9000 lives—mostly civilians—were lost in minutes.

Fleeing war, thousands boarded the Wilhelm Gustloff. Hours later, the sea swallowed over 9000 of them in the deadliest maritime disaster ever recorded. Musk is done with Washington, but Washington ...

Ruta Sepetys crafts unforgettable stories about history’s forgotten voices. Her novels don’t just stay with you, they echo ...

“Salt to the Sea” by Ruta Sepetys — Kelly Wang Despite being one of the deadliest maritime disasters, the 1945 sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff is rarely talked about. Ruta Sepetys brings to ...

David Frankfurter, Yugoslav Jewish medical student who assassinated Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi leader, in 1936, has been pardoned after serving half of his eighteen-year term, the Swiss radio ...

The D-boat with survivors from the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912, about to be rescued by the RMS Carpathia. Photo: J.W.

This time it was 30 January 1945. Zahn was a senior officer aboard Wilhelm Gustloff, an armed military transport ship that had been assigned the task of evacuating German civilians and military ...

Kurt Wilhelm “Joe the German” Weis, Sr., age 86, of New Castle, DE, passed away on Friday, May 2, 2025. Born in Geisenheim, Germany on October 7, 1938, he was raised in nearby Rudesheim am ...

For the first time in its 90-plus year history, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City presents masterworks from a group of late 1800s/early 1900s artists who established a vision of wildlife ...