Wilhelm Gustloff

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 415 words | Copyright

Wilhelm Gustloff, 25,484-ton German liner, named after a Swiss Nazi leader assassinated in 1936, which was torpedoed in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine on 30 January 1945. She was carrying 8,000 service personnel and refugees from Gdynia which was about to fall to Soviet troops during the last phase of the German–Soviet war. More than 7,000 died, the largest single loss of life in maritime history.

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