On its final voyage, Germany's Wilhelm Gustloff carried soldiers and thousands of civilians, many of them children. Young adult author Ruta... More Died On This WWII Ship Than On The Titanic And ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed on Jan. 30, 1945, killing thousands of people—many of them refugees The victims of the worst ...
Günter Grass’ latest novel, Crabwalk, examines the 1945 sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. The worst maritime disaster in world history was the subject of a 1959 German film called Night Fell Over ...
In her first novel, the international best-seller “Between Shades of Gray” (Philomel, 2011), Ruta Sepetys was inspired by the history of her father’s homeland of Lithuania, where in 1941 many families ...
“Winter, 1945. Four Teenagers. Four Secrets.” The voice of four young adults — Joana, Florian, Emlia and Alfred — tell a story leading up to the World War II tragedy, the sinking of the Wilhelm ...
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Hitler’s escape ship became a floating death trap for thousands
As Soviet forces closed in on East Prussia during the final months of World War II, thousands of terrified civilians boarded the Wilhelm Gustloff hoping to escape the advancing Red Army. Instead, the ...
Author Ruta Sepetys likes to look for what she calls "hidden chapters of history." She writes historical fiction for teens, and judging by the success of her debut novel, Between Shades of Gray, ...
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