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Read more: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Wilhelm_Gustloff
Today I Learned the sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff resulted in the loss of 9,400 German citizens. This makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking, however it is a rather unknown event due to being overshadowed by all the news of WW2 ending around the same time.
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This sinking resulted in more than double the lives lost in the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania COMBINED to put that number in perspective.
Wow, yeah, I’ve never heard of this. So hard to imagine 9400 people who lived, loved, lost, won, hated and respected … all at once, gone. Thanks for sharing this.
Was hit by a Torpedo?
Why were 9000+ people on a ship rated for less than 1500?
War is hell. many things went unreported due to war. Australians didn’t largely know about the attacks on Darwin by the japanese, bigger than the attacks on US Pearl Harbor, until after the war
Less than two weeks later, the same boat, *S-13* under Captain Alexandr Marinesko, sank the *Steuben*, which was overloaded with wounded German personnel. An additional 4,200 people would go down with that ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Marinesko
Well, the article says it was a military ship and also weaponised. Sorry but no sorry, it was a war that Germany initiated and got what they got in return.