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.

Die Gustloff's cinematic impact may aim to mimic Cameron's Titanic, but this German made-for-TV film has a dark side.

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 ...

The Wilhelm Gustloff was the most lethal shipwreck in history, but some details of the sinking remain unknown. At around 9 p.m. on January 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler was speaking to the German people.

But with death counts of about 1,500 and 1,200 respectively, both are dwarfed by what befell the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German ocean liner that was taken down by a Soviet sub on Jan. 30, 1945 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Wilhelm Gustloff's Death It is World War 2 and you are aboard the MV Wilhelm Gustloff which has just been struck with 3 torpedo strikes. You will relive ...

While the Titanic is the most famous maritime disaster, it's not the deadliest. The Wilhelm Gustloff is the deadliest in history, killing 9,000 people when it sank in 1945. Similar to the Titanic ...

It's about the doomed German ship Wilhelm Gustloff, which was sunk by three Russian torpedoes in January 1945. The ship carried soldiers and thousands of civilians, many of them children from ...