In January 1945, as Soviet forces tore through Eastern Europe, the former cruise liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff was thrown into ...

Victor Lutze, chief of the Nazi storm troops, charged today that “Jewish Marxists have murdered hundreds of storm troopers in Germany.” In a statement issued in connection with memorial services for ...

Over 9,000 people died in the Baltic Sea on January 30, 1945, in an attempt to evade the Red Army. The Wilhelm Gustloff was the most lethal shipwreck in history, but some details of the sinking remain ...

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 ...

Guilt is a hunter. Fate is a hunter. Shame is a hunter. Fear is a hunter. Inspired by the greatest tragedy in maritime history, four teenagers from four different European countries board the Wilhelm ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A discussion about the world's worst maritime disaster and why, to this day, it is a little-known story ...

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 ...