Packed with refugees, the Wilhelm Gustloff vanished beneath the Baltic Sea in minutes. It remains history’s deadliest maritime disaster—and its most overlooked.

On its final voyage, Germany's Wilhelm Gustloff carried soldiers and thousands of civilians, many of them children. Young adult author Ruta Sepetys revisits the ship's 1945 sinking in Salt to the Sea.

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 ...

The Wilhelm Gustloff interested Sepetys as a story about refugees because her own Lithuanian father spent nine years in refugee camps before being settled in the U.S.—but she had no idea when ...

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 ...

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, and the ...

Wilhelm Gustloff: Why the wreck of 'Hitler's Titanic' is rumoured to contain lost Nazi treasures Mysterious crates were allegedly stashed on board the vessel before it was sunk by Soviet torpedoes.

But now, after pubcaster ZDF sustained disappointing ratings and withering reviews for its $15 million two-part miniseries “Die Gustloff,” a drama loosely based on the sinking of the ship of ...

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 the MV Wilhelm Gustloff's final moments in this atmospheric simulation.

David Frankfurter, Yugoslavian Jewish medical student who slew Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi leader, last February, will be tried before the October term of the Grison Cantonal Court in Chur on a ...