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Encyclopedia: Wilhelm Gustloff

Wilhelm Gustloff (January 30, 1895 - February 4, 1936) was the German leader of the Swiss NSDAP (Nazi) party; he founded the Swiss branch of the party at Davos in 1932.[1]

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How to say "Wilhelm Gustloff" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	ヴィルヘルム・グストロフ
	(German)	Wilhelm Gustloff

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Soviet submarine S-13

The Soviet submarine S-13 , captained by Alexander Marinesko, sunk the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff on January 30, 1945, with three direct hits by torpedo...

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Refugee ships

In the Baltic Sea during WW II several ships that were loaded with evacuees have been torpedoed and sunk. Some of them are the Cap Arcona, the KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, the Goya and the General von Steuben. Each of these ships was carrying thousands of German soldiers, civilians as well as...

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KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff

The Wilhelm Gustloff was a ship built by Blohm and Voss and named after the assassinated Swiss Nazi Wilhelm Gustloff. It was launched on May 5, 1937. Originally Its original purpose was low-cost... concerts, cruises and other holidays. The Wilhelm Gustloff was the flagship of the KdF cruise fleet...

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Alexander Marinesko

Alexander Marinesko (Russian: Александр Маринеско , Aleksandr Marinesko , Alexander Marinesco ) was the captain of the Soviet submarine S-13 during the WWII that sunk the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff, with causalties around 10,000. It turned out that the ship transported...

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Kraft durch Freude

-trips and holidays. Large ships, such as the Wilhelm Gustloff , were built specially for KdF cruises...

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Cap Arcona

sinkings of the Wilhelm Gustloff and the Goya in the Baltic Sea these were three of the highest losses...

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David Frankfurter

David Frankfurter (July 91909 - July 191982) is best known for assassinating Swiss Nazi leader Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936. Born in Daruvar, former Austria-Hungary, today's Croatia, Frankfurter was the... Nazis, Frankfurter kept an eye on Gustloff, head of the Foreign Section of the Nazi party in...

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Evacuation of East Prussia

Soviet forces. One of the symbols of those events was the tragedy of German cruise Wilhelm Gustloff...

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List of disasters

Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945, the worst or perhaps second worst maritime incident in history, in terms of... shipwrecks Titanic sinking (April 15, 1912) KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff (January 30, 1945) Cap Arcona...

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1895

) January 30 - Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi party leader( d. 1936) February 2 - George Halas, American... - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. November 8 - Wilhelm Röntgen...

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