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    MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating...
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    TS Windhuk (1936), Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie passenger cargo liners MV Wilhelm Gustloff (1937), a Kraft durch Freude ("Strength Through Joy") cruise ship whose...
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  • Arcona, 1927 Deutschland, 1923 Goya, 1940 General von Steuben, 1923 Wilhelm Gustloff, 1937 Hamburg, 1926 Pretoria, 1936 Albert Ballin/Hansa, 1923 Bremse 1933...
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  • drama film, directed by Frank Wisbar. It dramatizes the sinking of MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which was sunk while carrying German servicemen and around 6,000 civilian...
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  • people, especially men, to her views. For her, the cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff, built in 1937 to put the Volksgemeinschaft (people's community) into practice...
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    his business for £170,000 and 1.24 million Sperrmark to the German Wilhelm Gustloff Stiftung. The remaining property was seized. Some time in the mid-1940s...
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    Operation Torch invasion fleet. On 20 May, the KdF fleet, including the MV Wilhelm Gustloff and 7 other ships, were given secret orders and diverted from their...
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  • considered a comparable penalty tax in 1936 after the assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff, to which a "plan to raise a special Jewish tax approved in principle"...
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    Johann Aigner, Adolf Lenk, Max Amann, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Wilhelm Adam, Robert Wagner and others (some 20 in all), advanced through the crowded...
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    Chamber of Culture, or Geschäftsführer of the Reichskulturkammer, after Wilhelm Gustloff, the head of the Foreign Section of the Swiss NSDAP, was assassinated...
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    Italy). Two of the world's first purpose-built cruise-liners, the Wilhelm Gustloff and the Robert Ley, were built to take KdF members on Mediterranean...
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  • turned out the man was Wilhelm Gustloff and he was assassinated the following day. Since Koch had been seen speaking to Gustloff just hours beforehand...
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    Baltic ports and returning wounded troops to Kiel. Along with the Wilhelm Gustloff and numerous other vessels, Steuben was part of the largest evacuation...
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    biggest in terms of lives lost. The wartime sinking of the German Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945 in World War II by a Soviet Navy submarine, with an...
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    Japanese ship during World War II. Swordfish′s keel was laid down on 27 October 1937 by the Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California. She was launched on...
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    Einsatzgruppe D and was executed for war crimes. Wilhelm Ohnesorge – State Secretary from 1933 and Reich Minister (1937–1945) in the Reich Postal Ministry. He was...
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    had entered Berlin. Hitler ordered everyone but Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Jodl, Hans Krebs, and Wilhelm Burgdorf to leave the room, then launched into a...
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    Tiger. In 1945 Löwe was one of the escorts to the Wilhelm Gustloff on her last voyage. The Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed and sank with a great loss of life...
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    repairs to her deck and forecastle. On January 30, 1945 the S-13 sank Wilhelm Gustloff, killing more than 9,000 people aboard. Gotenland, still damaged from...
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    the catastrophic sinking of several large passenger ships occurred: Wilhelm Gustloff and Goya were sunk by Soviet submarines, while Cap Arcona was sunk...
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    Wessel is represented by the character "Horst Kessler". Lei Feng Wilhelm Gustloff Herbert Norkus USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), a training ship originally built...
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    Christian Radich (category 1937 ships)
    at Framnæs shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway, and was delivered on 17 June 1937. The owner was The Christian Radich Sail Training Foundation, which was established...
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    [citation needed] Many Baltic Germans were on board the KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff when it was sunk by a Soviet submarine on January 30, 1945. By one...
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    117, 123 Wilhelm (1990), 64–65 Wilhelm (1990), 57, 65 Wilhelm (1990), 65 Carpenter (1988), 152; Wilhelm (1990), 65 Surrette (1999), 242 Wilhelm (1990),...
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  • Attentat auf Wilhelm Gustloff. Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-069-1. Matthieu Gillabert: La propagande nazie en Suisse. L'affaire Gustloff 1936. Presses...
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    [1975]. The War Against the Jews. Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0553345322. Deist, Wilhelm, Messerschmidt, Manfred, Wette, Wolfram et al. (2008). Germany and the...
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    German cruiser Admiral Hipper (category 1937 ships)
    Admiral Hipper received a distress call from the sinking transport Wilhelm Gustloff, which was also carrying refugees. The cruiser did not stop to pick...
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  • The list of ship launches in 1937 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1937. "May". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017. "Comara"...
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  • Marcel Pilet-Golaz Albert Meyer (President) Rudolf Minger 4 February – Wilhelm Gustloff, leader of the Swiss branch of the Nazi Party is assassinated. August...
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  • S-13 was responsible for the sinking of the German military transport Wilhelm Gustloff and the General von Steuben with heavy losses of life.[citation needed]...
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