Sandra Dodd

Here's a page on a shipwreck 60 years ago.


http://www.feldgrau.com/wilhelmgustloff.html

On the bitter cold night of January 30th, 1945, the former KdF Cruise
Liner Wilhelm Gustloff, at the time serving as a barracks ship for
the Kriegsmarine, left from the Baltic port of Gotenhafen and set
sail for the relative safety of the west, away from the advance of
Soviet forces that were converging on the region. The Gustloff,
designed to carry a maximum of 1,865 people total, was transporting
10,582 refugees, soldiers, sailors, and crew - including scores of
sick and injured, as well as women, children and the elderly. All
were fleeing from the terrible fate that awaited most of those left
in the wake of the Soviet advance, including Germans and non-Germans
alike.

Every once in a while there's a new wave of interest among kids about
shipwrecks. The release of the new version of The Poseidon Adventure
will likely spark that interest in some people, so I thought I'd
share this site I've just come across in one of those random webcrawl
ways.

Sandra


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