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The MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German KdF passenger ship constructed by the Blohm and Voss shipyards. It sank after being hit by three torpedoes fired by the Soviet submarine S-13 on January 30, 1945 with the loss of around 9,000 lives the greatest loss of life in a maritime disaster in history.

We will never know the exact number of those who perished in the Gustloff tragedy because crew members lost count when thousands of refugees jammed every corner of the ship. Regardless, historians commonly agree that it is the most deadly single ship disaster ever.

In the panic that followed, many of the passengers were trampled in the rush to the lifeboats and life jackets. Some equipment was lost as a result of the panic. The water temperature in the Baltic Sea at this time of year is usually around 4°C; however, this was a particularly cold night, with an air temperature of −10° to −18°C and ice floes covering the surface. Many deaths were caused either directly by the torpedoes or by drowning in the onrushing water. Others were crushed in the initial panic on the stairs and decks, and many jumped into the icy Baltic. There are reports of children clinging onto adults and women trying to save their babies, though constant waves dragged them away from them, most never to be seen again. Small children fitted with life jackets for adults drowned because their heads were under water while their legs were in the air, due to the ill-fitting survival gear.

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  • Wunderschönes Lied...

    Ehre unseren gefallenen Landsleuten !!!!!!

  • GERMANIA wir lieben dich!!! wir werden immer für dich da sein!!

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  • Gänsehaut !!!!!!!

  • Wilhelm Gustloff was a true magestic CRIME AGAINST THE HUMANITY.Not only from Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.By that reason,I invite all commenters that here use to express their opinions in German for to do it in English language,too.And share by this way their point the views with the whole world.The fanatics from german superiority must understand that the 9500 people that died in that night were, more than all, HUMAN BE...and not only citizens of Germany.A real disgraceful waste of lives!

  • Das Lied ist mal so dermasen geil..

    Schade, dass die Deutschen jetzt in so einem schlechten Licht dastehen, aber wir verdanken Hitler unsere gute Infrastruktur und noch vieles mehr, für mich war er kein Größenwahnsinger, sondern mutig!!

  • ....und dieser penner ist auch noch mt dem höchsten orden ausgezeichnet worden...

    ein MAHNMAL für die ewigkeit!!!!!

  • @dreistsein Bitte sag mir nich dass du n deutscher bist...das wäre eine Schande wenn so ein verlogenes Schwein wie du sich so nennt

  • Sehr schönes Lied und gutes Video!

  • @ceddyspapa zählt nicht zur jüngsten geschichte amerika -afgahnistan , israel- gaza also ees funktioniert heute noch nur der unterschied ist wir haben den krieg verloren

  • ach so ? Wenn also jmd was schlimmes tut (wobei Deutschland nicht die einzigsten Kriegsverbrecher warn ;) dann ist es nicht so schlimm wenn 9500 Leute die rein garnichts mit Kriegsverbrechen zutun hatten sterben ?

  • @dreistsein Du bist hier der Volldepp,denn es gibt genug andere Völker die anderen Menschen,Rassen und Völkern leid angetan haben,mach mal die Augen auf.Stichwort:Einwanderer in Amerika haben einen ganzen Volk das Land weggenommen oder Russen,Chinesen mach dich mal schlau du Vollpfosten,Nur weil das 3.Reich zur jüngsten Geschichte zählt brauchen sich die Deutschen den Schuh nicht anziehen.

  • Das Lied ist billig und erinnert doch sehr an "Nothing else matters" können diese ewig gestrigen Vollpfosten keine eigene Musik machen... ?????

    Klar war das bitter, aber nichts zum Vergleich, was deutsche anderen Völkern angetan haben. Wacht endlich auf ihr Volldeppen.......

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