When three torpedoes hit the ship, there weren’t nearly enough lifeboats, and many of the ... about four fictional young passengers on the Wilhelm Gustloff: an overeager Nazi manning the ship ...

The Wilhelm Gustloff before its first departure in 1938 ... graveyard—an infant wrapped tightly in blankets aboard a lifeboat, surrounded by deceased passengers. (The officer who found the ...

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.

All available lifeboats were launched with about 2,000 ... However, to this day, the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff remains the world's worst maritime disaster. Wilhelm Gustloff, the man, would ...

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 ...

151; -- The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst maritime disaster in history. Sunk by a Soviet submarine on 30 January 1945, the death toll on the Wilhelm Gustloff was equivalent to ...

The death toll from the sinking of the Nazi liner Wilhelm Gustloff was six times bigger than the Titanic disaster. (Getty) Built in the 1930s, the Gustloff carried high ranking Nazi officials and ...

The Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed on Jan. 30, 1945, killing thousands of people—many of them refugees 31,039 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?