MV Wilhelm Gustloff
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MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship, which was taking part in Operation Hannibal, when it was sunk by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea on 30 January 1945. At the time, it w
Wilhelm Gustloff as a hospital ship, before being converted into an armed military transport. Docked in Danzig, 23 September 1939.
Wilhelm Gustloff, 1940
Wilhelm Gustloff, 1940
German soldiers wounded at Narvik being transported to Germany on Wilhelm Gustloff in July 1940.
Amber Room
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The Amber Room was a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg.
MV Wilhelm Gustloff
…a war grave. It is one of the largest shipwrecks on the Baltic Sea floor and has attracted much interest from treasure hunters searching for the lost Amber Room. In order to protect the peace of victims of the war grave, as well as the wreck itself and the surrounding environment, the Polish Maritime Office in…
Hand-coloured photograph of the original Amber Room, 1931
Reconstructed Amber Room, 2003
Corner section of the reconstructed Amber Room
Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great in the Amber Chamber, Autochrome Lumière in 1917