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.

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“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 ...

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14) but the Homeric tale of that martyr, Nazi Leader Wilhelm Gustloff, who is a likely candidate for canonization when the Paganists in Germany can spare time from their baiting of Jews and ...

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 ...

The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff is the worst naval disaster in history. Built in 1937 and named after an assassinated German martyr, the 25,484-ton vessel started life as a passenger ship for ...

Eyewitnesses claimed to have seen the Amber Room being packaged up and placed on board the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German transport ship, which was subsequently sunk in January 1945 by a Soviet submarine.

Here we list five of the worst ship disasters of the 19-20th centuries. MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German ship that sunk in 1945 during World War II. Around 9,000 people were killed.

Even less become cultural icons. The Germans have the Wilhelm Gustloff, and the British have RMS Titanic. But while those started their lives as ocean liners, the most iconic American equivalent ...

The event pushed America closer to joining the war. The sinking of German military transport MV Wilhelm Gustloff by a Soviet submarine on Jan. 30, 1945, was probably the deadliest sinking of a ...