The World War 11 Sinking of the Ship Wilhelm Gustloff
The World War 11 Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff is the worst maratime disaster in the history of the world, with more fatalities then the Titanic and the Lusitania combined.
On January 30 1945, the ship Wilhelm Gustloff was filled with 9,600 German refugees fleeing the advancing Red Army. In the dead of this cold winter night the Soviet Submarine S-13 slammed three torpedoes into the Gustloff's side
sending her to the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and taking 9,600 passeners and crew, over half of them children and infants to their graves.
Though the Wilhelm Gustloff was a German ship with a prominant Nazi's name, most of those who were lost on that horrible night WERE NOT Nazis but homeless East Prussian refugees trying to get to safety.
To the world the fact the victims were German seems enough to condemn this unforgivable act to obscurity.
Our intent is to honor the 9,600 victims of the Gustloff disaster, and the few hundred that survived.
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The World War 11 Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
by Cathryn Prince (Author)
Price: $19.64
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; First Edition edition (April 9, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10 1137279192
ISBN-13 978-0230341562
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 0.9 x 9.6 inches
Cathryn Prince breaks the silence around the devastating sinking of the ship, Wilhelm Gustloff, which caused more tha 9,000 East Prussian German civilians to lose their lives at the end of the war.
Parting the curtain on the “collateral damage” the Allied Forces accepted as a necessary strategy for defeating Hitler, this book present the grim facts.
Out of a desire for vengeance and recognition, one Soviet submarine commander sank the ship, Wilhelm Gustloff, causing the deaths of thousands of East Prussian German refugees, deaths that the victors of World War II chose to ignore.
The true untold story of the most disastrous sea catastrophe, the sinking of the Willhelm Gustloff, is still unknown to a majority of non-Germans, and to many Germans as well.
-Cathryn J. Prince (Author) / File Size: 1064 KB / Print Length: 258 pages / Available April 9, 2013
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 cruise ship. Soon after the ship leaves port and the passengers sigh in relief,
three Soviet torpedoes strike it, inflicting catastrophic damage and throwing passengers into the frozen waters of the Baltic.
More than 9,400 perished in the night—six times the number lost on the Titanic. Yet as the Cold War started no one wanted to acknowledge the sinking. Drawing on interviews with survivors, as well as the
letters and diaries of those who perished, award-wining author Cathryn Prince reconstructs this forgotten moment in history. She weaves these personal narratives into a broader story, finally giving this
WWII tragedy its rightful remembrance.
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-Max Egremont (Author) / File Size: 5 KB / Print Length: 384 pages / Available November 8, 2011
Forgotten Land is a story of historical identity and character, told through intimate portraits of people and places. It is a unique examination of the layers of history, of the changing perceptions and myths of homeland, of virtue and of wickedness, and of how a place can still overwhelm those who left it years before.
Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire’s farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the border between Russia and
Lithuania in the east and south, and through Poland in the west. In Forgotten Land, Max Egremont offers a vivid account of this region and its people through the stories of individuals who were intimately involved in and transformed by its tumultuous history, as well as accounts of his own travels and interviews he conducted along the way.
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-Margarete G. Mueller (Author)/ File Size: 798 KB / Print Length: 132 pages / Published: May 15, 2010
Margarete traces her long journey from childhood in East Prussia, to the years in Russian prison camps, and her new beginning in Canada. A remarkable story of insight, courage, inspiration, love and forgiveness.
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-Evelyne Tannehill (Author)/ File Size: 639 KB / Print Length: 440 pages / Published: May 20, 2009
Much has been written about World War II, but not often do we hear about the immeasurable suffering of the Germans who wanted no part of Hitler's regime.
Abandoned and Forgotten is the memoir of a young girl growing up in the then-German province of East Prussia by the Baltic Sea. Orphaned at the age of nine and left to fend for herself in a hostile world,
Evelyne Tannehill witnessed firsthand what happens when law and order break down and self-preservation becomes the only thing that matters. Her journey is a poignant example of how resilient the human spirit
can be, even in the face of war's greatest horrors.
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-James Charles Roy, Amos Elon (Introduction) / Paperback 398 pages / Published June 2000 This excellent book defines Prussia geographically and presents a summarize of its rise from its 12th-century founding by Christian knights of the Teutonic Order to the present. Prussia and its hereditary rulers, the Hohenzollerns, reached their political zenith in 1871, when they effectively ruled the Second German Empire. After World War I and the abdication of Wilhelm II, who was the last ruling Hohenzollern, Prussia ceased to exist as a political entity and its territory was incorporated into a greater Germany.
This book covers the aftermath of World War 11 which forced relocation of millions of Germans from the three Eastern states of Prussia. These people who had lived on this land for more than 700 years had to leave everything and flee for there lives. This book bring to light what very few readers know much about. That is the "Great Trek" during the winter of 1944-45 that resulted in turning Danzig into Gdansk and Königsberg into Kaliningrad.
While many readers usually associate Prussia with duty, discipline, and fervent militarism, this
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An introduction by Amos Elon brings the history of Prussia up to the present day with its examination of East Prussia's former capital, Königsberg, which was incorporated into Russian territory in 1945. The fate of the city, today physically and economically devastated, and remains precarious. Will it return to Germany or remain a Russian territory? Together, Roy and Elon provide a comprehensive overview of Prussia's past, present, and future.
Includes maps, historical and contemporary photographs, and an extensive bibliography.
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