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OPPOSITE The Wilhelm Gustloff in happier times. It was a passenger liner built to take working class Germans on holiday as part of Hitler’s ‘Strength Through Joy’ movement.

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‘The worst maritime disaster ever’: the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

Hitler’s Nazi Empire was in its death agony. Millions of Germans were desperate to escape the fast-advancing Red Army. Richard Selcer reports on a signal catastrophe amid the chaos.