MV Wilhelm Gustloff

Wilhelm Gustloff adalah nama sebuah kapal Jerman yang mengangkut warga sipil dan prajurit yang terluka dalam Perang Dunia II dan ditorpedo oleh kapal selam Uni Soviet S-13 di tengah Laut Baltik pada 30 Januari 1945.

Diperkirakan sekitar 9.400 penumpangnya meninggal. Sejauh ini, Gustloff dianggap kecelakaan kapal tunggal terbesar dalam sejarah. Kecelakaan besar lain dan sangat terkenal adalah tenggelamnya kapal RMS Titanic.

Vessel	Goya	Wilhem Gustloff	Cap Arcona	General Steuben	Thielbek	Woosung	Dona Paz	Titanic	Lusitania
Year Lost	1945	1945	1945	1945	1945	1948	1987	1912	1915
Country	Germany	Germany	Germany	Germany	Germany	China	Philippines	Great Britain	Great Britain
Number of Fatalities	~6,000	~9,343	~4,500	~4,500	~2,800	~2,750	~2,000	~1,503	~1,198

Wreckage

55.07°N 17.41°E / 55.07; 17.41 is the resting place of the Gustloff. This is 30 km offshore, east of Łeba (17.33E) and west of Władysławowo (18.24E). It has been designated as a war memorial site (off-limits to salvage crews). On Polish navigation charts it is noted as "Obstacle No. 73".

In 2006, a bell recovered from the wreck, and subsequently used as decoration in a Polish fish restaurant, was loaned to the "Forced Paths" exhibition in Berlin.

Movie and Novel

The film Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen 1959 presented the tragedy 43 years before Günter Grass did it.

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The novel Im Krebsgang (2002) (English translation: Crabwalk), by Danzig-born German author and Nobel prize winner Günter Grass, is based on the story of the disaster.

See also

• Cap Arcona
• Goya
• Steuben

• List of shipwrecks
• List of ship and ferry disasters
• Alexander Marinesko

References

• Kappes, Irwin J.; The Greatest Marine Disaster in History... and why you probably never heard of it. 2003. — The website militaryhistoryonline.com is included in the Military History - Web sources by theCentral Michigan University Libraries.
• Leja, Michael; Die letzte Fahrt der "Wilhelm Gustloff"; ZDF, 1 August 2005 reports that earlier estimates of approximately 6000 drowned have been revised upwards in more recent sources to about 9300. An article in German on the website of a public service German television channel.
• Pipes, Jason; A Memorial to the Wilhelm Gustloff — The website www.feldgrau.com is listed as an external link by the Department of German at the University of Wales
• Schön, Heinz; Die Gustloff Katastrophe (Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 2002)

Further reading

Bishop, Leigh; Shipwreck Expedition May 2003, led by Mike Boring, 2003
www.wilhelmgustloff.com A bibliography on the Wilhelm Gustloff	A search for the website, wilhelmgustloff.com, (using Google 12:45, 8 November 2006 (UTC)) under the academic domian names "ac.uk" and "edu" returned no pages
The submarine that sank the Third Reich	The website this is published on claims it is/was an article in the Russian Navy Chronicle but does not give author of date of publication. A search (using Google 12:45, 8 November 2006 (UTC)) returned only two mentions of the Russian Navy Chronicle both on the website http://www.strelna.ru.
Maritimequest Wilhelm Gustloff Photo Gallery	A search for the website, maritimequest.com, (using Google 12:45, 8 November 2006 (UTC)) under the academic domain names "ac.uk" and "edu" returned no pages.

External Links

• [2]-good
• [3]-good and fine
• [4]-polish
• [5]-russian
• [6]-russian
• [7]-russian.Very interesting site
• [8]-lot of interactive
• [9]-T-36 /click -disaster-T36 /

Footnotes

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