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"As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--
World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, many with something to hide.Among them areJoana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to theship that promises salvation, the "Wilhelm Gustloff." Forced by circumstance...
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The author of the Tin Drum takes on the worst maritime disaster in history, the sinking of a German cruise ship packed with refugees by a Soviet sub, a disaster that killed nine thousand people. Gunter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for decades now, but no book since The Tin Drum has generated as much excitement as this engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. A German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, it was attacked...
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Discovery Channel
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[2003]
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English
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On the evening of Jan. 30, 1945, the German luxury liner, the Wilhelm Gustloff, set sail with more than 6000 German refugees aboard. 9 hours later, 3 torpedos fired from a Russian submarine caused the ship to sink in less than an hour into the cold Baltic Sea waters, taking all but 996 of the passengers with her. The sinking marked the worst maritime disaster in history. Experts use 21st century technology to reconstruct the disaster. Includes personal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013.
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The worst maritime disaster ever occurred during World War II, when more than 9,000 German civilians drowned. It went unreported.
January 1945: The outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich is in free fall as the Russians close in from the east. Berlin plans an eleventh-hour exodus for the German civilians trapped in the Red Army's way. More than 10,000 women, children, sick, and elderly pack aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a former...
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