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.

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 Wilhelm Gustloff is the deadliest in history, killing 9,000 people when it sank in 1945. Similar to the Titanic, the Joola, the SS Kiangya, and the MV Doña Paz were carrying civilians when ...

The wreck of a German ship sunk by Soviet torpedoes in the Baltic Sea 60 years ago, with the loss of 9,000 lives, is being systematically plundered by rogue divers. The Wilhelm Gustloff ...

But with death counts of about 1,500 and 1,200 respectively, both are dwarfed by what befell the Wilhelm Gustloff ... two divers who had explored the wreck in the late ’60s under Soviet supervision.

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 ...

MV Wilhelm Gustloff The deadliest shipwreck in history took place during World War 2 when Soviet Union forces attacked the Wilhelm Gustloff, a Nazi ocean liner. Built to hold 1,900 people ...

A body has since been recovered from the site. The MV Wilhelm Gustloff was built in 1937 for the Nazi party as a cruise liner for German public servants and workers but it was requisitioned in ...