In January 1945, as Soviet forces tore through Eastern Europe, the former cruise liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff was thrown into Operation Hannibal, the vast German sea evacuation across the Baltic. Packed ...

The sinking of the Titanic may be the most infamous naval disaster in history, and the torpedoing of the Lusitania the most infamous in wartime. But with death counts of about 1,500 and 1,200 ...

Based on the reverence the Titanic has in public consciousness, you would think that it was the worst shipwreck of all time. In reality, there was a shipwreck 30 years later that made the Titanic look ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...