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 ...

Guilt is a hunter. Fate is a hunter. Shame is a hunter. Fear is a hunter. Inspired by the greatest tragedy in maritime history, four teenagers from four different European countries board the Wilhelm ...

The Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed on Jan. 30, 1945, killing thousands of people—many of them refugees The victims of the worst maritime tragedy in history were not only Germans, but also Prussians, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A discussion about the world's worst maritime disaster and why, to this day, it is a little-known story ...

The German Jews today were in a state of panic following Reichsfuehrer Hitler’s address hinting that reprisals would be taken against them for the assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi leader, ...

In her first novel, the international best-seller “Between Shades of Gray” (Philomel, 2011), Ruta Sepetys was inspired by the history of her father’s homeland of Lithuania, where in 1941 many families ...

“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 ...

In January 1945, an estimated 9,400 people died when the German military transport ship, the Wilhelm Gustloff, was sunk in the Baltic by a Soviet submarine. The victims were almost all civilians ...