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October 20th, 2016 | #1 |
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I never get tired of listening to Pierce on ADV
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...3F01&FORM=VIRE
Although this isn't the main point of this ADV broadcast, Pierce said the death toll was 6000 to 7000. A more recent estimate has put the death toll at 9400. Heinz Schön, a German archivist and Gustloff survivor who carried out extensive research into the sinking during the 1980s and 1990s, concluded that Wilhelm Gustloff was carrying a crew of 173 (naval armed forces auxiliaries), 918 officers, NCOs, and men of the 2 Unterseeboot-Lehrdivision, 373 female naval auxiliary helpers, 162 wounded soldiers, and 8,956 civilians of which an estimated 5,000 were children, for a total of 10,582 passengers and crew. |
October 21st, 2016 | #2 |
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It's terrible the story of the Wilhelm Gustloff sinking is so little-known. The death toll was six times that of the Titanic.
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October 21st, 2016 | #3 | |
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This disaster is just now being recognized
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https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...F43C&FORM=VIRE The tone of this show is decidedly anti-National Socialist, but at least they bring up the disaster and want to remember the ones who died in it. The second largest single ship maritime tragedy was also a German transport ship. The Goya, like the Wilhelm Gustloff, was evacuating German citizens from East Prussia from the Red Army onslaught and was torpedoed in the Baltic Sea by a soviet submarine. The death toll is estimated at well over 6000, perhaps 7000. |
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