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"Once one of Nazi Germany's most vaunted cruise liners, the Wilhelm Gustloff packed her decks with some 6,500 refugees in January 1945 and made her way out of the Gulf of Danzig just before the Russian army swept in. Scores of SS officers, top-ranking Nazi officials, members of the German Women's Naval Service, and hundreds of wounded German soldiers, fragmented army units, and fleeing peasants were on board when the ship was hit by torpedoes twelve miles off shore. Panic broke out, and more than 6,000 passengers were lost - making it the greatest sea disaster ever recorded. The author of this book, Arthur V. Sellwood, a journalist known for his action-filled naval stories, draws on interviews with some of the survivors and official documents to assure the authenticity of his account."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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She had been converted to a military hospital/floating barracks/ U-boat training ship and had been moored for several years. The engines needed work, and virtually all of the lifeboats had been stripped for duty on other ships. The captain did what he could to obtain several open whaleboats, but the area they were to sail into was filled with mines, enemy aircraft and submarines. It was a sub: marine that was to initiate the tragedy The ship, only twelve miles from land – it might as well have been a thousand given the conditions – was hit by three Russian torpedoes. There were lifeboats for barely one-third of the 6,000 passengers. The weather was horrible, and it had been only by the most bizarre chance that the Russian captain had seen them. Atmospheric interference had also hindered their reception of the submarine warnings. Panic erupted almost immediately, and the captain was forced to issue shoot-to-kill warnings if anyone rushed the boats. Those boats that managed to get away without spilling their contents were found to be devoid of oars – it had been an administrative oversight.
The captain of the battleship Hipper, when he realized what had happened, violated all rules of common sense by turning back to help. Putting his ship in great danger, he lit up the area with searchlights, but the huge ship's sides made rescue virtually impossible despite heroic efforts by his crew. They were running down more boats and survivors than they could save, so he was forced to abandon the area.
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