MV Wilhelm Gustloff
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MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating civilians and military personnel from East Prussia and the German-occupied Baltic states, and German military personnel from Gotenhafen (Gdynia) as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate, 9,400 people died, making it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history.
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.
Baltic Sea
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The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
Hel Peninsula
Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen in Germany, was a sacred site of the Rani tribe before Christianization.
The naval Battle of the Sound took place on 8 November 1658 during the Dano-Swedish War.
Nautical chart of the Baltic Sea in 1919.