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	Wilhelm Gustloff (ship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wilhelm Gustloff was the flagship of the KdF cruise fleet until 1939.
		Later during the Second World War, the Wilhelm Gustloff was used as a barracks ship for U-boat trainees in the Baltic port of Gdynia (originally Gdingen in German, called Gotenhafen during the Nazi German World War II occupation of Poland).
		The ship's final voyage was to evacuate civilians, wounded German soldiers and sailors from Gdynia near Danzig (Gdańsk) to Kiel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/KdF_Ship_Wilhelm_Gustloff (1490 words)

	Wilhelm Gustloff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was named after Gustloff by the Nazi regime; it was sunk in 1945 with the loss of thousands of lives.
		During World War II the small arms factory Wilhelm Gustloff Werke was named in his honour His assassination is an element of the novel Crabwalk (in German: Im Krebsgang) by the German writer Günter Grass with the plot based the fate of KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilhelm_Gustloff (197 words)

	TGOL - Wilhelm Gustloff
		The late Wilhelm Gustloff’s widow gave the ship her husband’s name, and sent it to the water by smashing a bottle against the ship’s bow.
		The Wilhelm Gustloff and her running mate Robert Ley, which was being built at the yards of Howaldt in Hamburg and would enter service in 1939, would go into history as the world’s first purpose-built cruise ships.
		In November of 1940, the Wilhelm Gustloff was sent to the German port of Gotenhafen, where she would serve the Third Reich as an accommodation ship.
	www.greatoceanliners.net /wilhelmgustloff.html (1390 words)

	A Memorial To The Wilhelm Gustloff
		Wilhelm Gustloff had been the leader of the NSDAP in Switzerland and he was assassinated in 1936.
		The Wilhelm Gustloff in harbor as a KdF ship in 1938
		The second torpedo exploded under the area of the ship that was the swimming pool, and the third torpedo hit amidship in the forward part of the engine room, ripping the ship hull and shattering the machinery.
	www.feldgrau.com /wilhelmgustloff.html (2122 words)

	KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff
		The Wilhelm Gustloff was a ship built originally by Blohm and Voss for the cheap cruise market during the early years of the Nazi Reich, named after the assassinated Swiss Nazi Wilhelm Gustloff.
		The Wilhelm Gustloff was the flagship of the KdF cruise fleet.
		During the majority of the Second World War, Wilhelm Gustloff was used primarily as a recreation ship for German troops.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/kd/KdF_Ship_Wilhelm_Gustloff.html (387 words)

	Royal Forgery
		This ship of 25,484 tons had been launched and named after her late husband by the widow of Wilhelm Gustloff who was the leader of the Nazi party of Switzerland.
		Wilhelm Gustloff had an unusual command structure, her Captain as a civilian ship was a merchant marine officer, Friedrich Petersen, but as a residential vessel for the 2nd.
		The ship was doomed, and the forecastle started to dip below the sea surface whilst the stern rose higher in the air, in only 50 minutes Wilhelm Gustloff had sunk, taking with her in the icy depths of the Baltic about 7000 children, women and men.
	members.tripod.com /Tenika/tragedy.htm (2431 words)

	Saravanan's Blog: Wilhelm Gustloff
		Wilhelm Gustloff was originally to be named after Adolf Hitler but was named after a man who was the leader of Nazi Party in Switzerland.
		Wilhelm Gustloff (in picture) was assasinated in 1936 in Davos by David Frankfurter, a medical student.
		Wilhelm Gustloff was launched in 1937 as the flagship of the Kraft durch Freude or Strength Through Joy Organization (KdF).
	saravanansadasivan.blogspot.com /2006/09/wilhelm-gustloff.html (903 words)

	Wilhelm Gustlof
		The Wilhelm Gustloff as a KdF ship pre-1939 The Wilhelm Gustloff (25484 BRT) was launched in 1937 as the crown jewel of the Kraft durch Freude or Strength through Joy organization (KdF).
		The Wilhelm Gustloff in harbor as a KdF ship in 1938 For nearly two years after it was launched the Wilhelm Gustloff sailed on pleasure cruises in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean and North Seas.
		Passengers onboard the Gustloff on a cruise in 1938 Passengers onboard in 1938, notice the life boat cranes behind them On September 22nd, 1939, shortly after the Second World War broke out, the Wilhelm Gustloff was offically commissioned into the Kriegsmarine by the German Armed Forces for use as a hospital ship.
	www.skovheim.org /worldwide/baltic/gustlof/wgustlof.htm (2594 words)

	Kraft durch Freude
		The KdF also sponsored and organized a wide variety of other activities, inlcuding retreats, day trips, tours, concerts, theater and opera performances, art exhibits, and other cultural and historical displays and events, all of which were supposedly designed to aid the "average" German enjoy their free time more.
		When WWII began in 1939, one of the most important functions the KdF helped serve was in the provision of the majority of its fleet of ships for use by the German Kriegsmarine, mainly as hospital ships or barrack vessels.
		The largest and most famous KdF ship, the Wilhelm Gustloff, served initially as a hospital ship during WWII, later as a barracks ship, and was sunk in January of 1945 with a loss of 9,343 lives, the largest single naval loss in history.
	www.feldgrau.com /KdF.html (1255 words)

	M.S. Wilhelm Gustloff - HISTORY - Cruise Ship
		Gustloff is actually ready to be tested in March 1938 as a cruise ship to serve all classes of the German
		Wilhelm Gustloff is finally ready to be put to sea in its capacity as the most advanced cruise ship in the world.
		Gustloff will host the cream of the German athletic corps at the “Lingiad”, a non-competitive sporting event run in honour of a founding father in Swedish gymnastics and physical therapy (amusingly, he is better known in modern times as the inventor of the “Swedish Massage”).
	www.wilhelmgustloff.com /history_cruiseship.htm (2524 words)

	Wilhelm Gustloff, 10,000 dead?
		When she set sail the specifications of the ship were such that she was built to comfortably house 1850 passengers and a crew of 400, carrying an estimated 600 tons of humans settled the ship an estimated extra 15cm in the water.
		Wilhelm Gustloff had been the leader of the Party in Switzerland and he was murdered in 1936.
		The Wilhelm Gustloff was not marked up as a refugee ship nor as a hospital ship and carried anti aircraft armaments.
	www.mikekemble.com /ww2/gustloff.html (1172 words)

	S Y N T H E S I S - WILHELM GUSTLOFF by A Challenge of Honour
		The Wilhelm Gustloff - named after an NSDAP officer in Switzerland who had been assassinated in 1936 - was a hospital ship built under the direction of the Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy).
		You can imagine the Wilhelm Gustloff cutting an imposing swathe through the ocean at the peak of her prime and towards the end we even hear the voice of a German actress ceremoniously naming the ship.
		It's difficult to say whether this piece is designed to express the awesome power of the Wilhelm Gustloff or the cataclysmic events which sent her to the bottom of the ocean on that fateful winter's night.
	www.rosenoire.org /reviews/challenge-wilhelm.php (1138 words)

	KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The Wilhelm Gustloff was a ship built by Blohm + Voss and named after the assassinated leader of the Swiss Nazi party, Wilhelm Gustloff.
		During the majority of the Second World War, Wilhelm Gustloff was used primarily as a barracks ship for U-boat trainees.
		However the Gustloff remains the worst disaster in shipping history, in terms of loss of life in a single vessel.
	education.music.us /K/KdF-Ship-Wilhelm-Gustloff.htm (716 words)

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		Early in 1945 the end of Nazi Germany was clearly taking shape, the Red Army advanced into East Prussia committing massacres that terrified the civil population; Admiral Karl Doenitz organised the Hannibal Operation, the mass evacuation of the German population from those territories: about three million people then fled to the west looking for safety.
		So tragically finished the ship that was the flagship and the pride of KdF (Kraft durch Freude), the flag carrier of the Third Reich.
		The wreck of the Wilhelm Gustloff is all that remains of the greatest tragedy at sea in history, it lies in the international waters off the coast of modern Poland, in the stretch of sea between the shallow basin of the Stolpe-Bank and the Danish island of Bornholm.
	www.safecavediving.com /events/WilHelmGustloff2004.htm (455 words)

	Wilhelm Gustloff (ship) Encyclopedia Article @ Befell.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Wilhelm Gustloff was the flagship of the KdF cruise fleet until
		The ship's final voyage was to evacuate civilians, wounded German soldiers and sailors from Gdynia near
		Admiral Hipper, herself carrying 1,500 refugees, received reports from her lookouts that she was under torpedo attack, he chose not to stop to pick up survivors.
	www.befell.org /encyclopedia/Wilhelm_Gustloff_(ship) (1554 words)

	TGOL - Robert Ley
		It looked as if she and the second ship, which was being built as ship number 754 in the yards of Howaldt in Hamburg, would soon enter a very profitable service.
		In January the Robert Ley’s sister ship Wilhelm Gustloff was lost when she was sunk by a submarine in the Baltic Sea, taking with her more than 5,000 people.
		Soon the bombs were falling down on the former cruise ship, and it was not long before fires were ravaging her.
	www.greatoceanliners.net /robertley.html (1244 words)

	Wilhelm Gustloff Historic images
		The Wilhelm Gustloff, the first new vessel for the KdF fleet, became a hospital ship in 1939.
		Left; Under the eye of Hitler and his henchmen (bottom right) the Gustloff was launched as a tribute to the late Martyr Wilhelm Gustloff assassinated by a jew.
		Here the ship sails up the Thames in London were she would act as a polling station for 2000 voting Germans residing in England.
	www.deepimage.co.uk /wrecks/wilhelm-gustoff/wilhelm-gustloff_historicimages.htm (449 words)

	Maritime Disasters of WWII 1944, 1945
		As the ship was unmarked the submarine commander could not have known that the ship carried such a cargo.
		German ex-refrigerated cargo ship, converted to a troop transport in 1942 and then to a hospital ship early in 1944, sailed from the Latvian port of Windau at 5:30pm on October 29th, bound for Gotenhaven in the Bay of Danzig.
		The ships former position was shown by a trench on the harbour floor, 300 feet long, 50 feet wide and 35 feet deep.
	members.iinet.net.au /~gduncan/maritime-1b.html (10435 words)

	super ships - A Bravenet.com Hosted Site
		Although her crew had been warned about icebergs several times that evening by other ships navigating through that region, she was traveling at near top speed of about 20.5 knots when one grazed her side.Less than three hours later, the Titanic plunged to the bottom of the sea, taking more than 1500 people with her.
		The Dresden hoisted a white flag of truce, and dispatched Lieutenant Wilhelm Canaris to inform the British warships that she was in neutral waters.
		Although many of the ship's company were asleep in their cabins and had no chance to save themselves, those that got off the ship were at the mercy of the frigid 20-foot-high seas.
	superships.bravehost.com /shipwrecks.html (1110 words)

	Cruise ship disasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The KDF cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff dressed in flags cruise ship disasters..
		But the freighters, tankers and cruise ships that ply these waters are bigger cruise ship disasters.
		Fresh out of port, the ship was forced to turn around and drop off the body,throwing off the schedule for the remainder of the cruise cruise ship disasters..
	finance-house.org /cruise-ship-disasters.html (546 words)

	Ship Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first ship built was the City of Orange, ship disaster and her irascible captain provided a memorable maiden voyage from Orange, Texas, to Genoa, Italy.
		Out of fourteen ships built at one shipyard, four burned ship disaster and one was sunk by a U-boat off the coast of Spain.
		Patria disaster - The Patria was a ship that sank in Haifa harbor on November 25, 1940, with the loss of approximately 267 lives (over 200 Jews and 50 crew and British soldiers).
	ch47.greenzinenet.com /shipdisaster.html (1136 words)

	Prora KdF Resort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In conjunction with KdF cruise ships, these seaside resorts were meant to provide affordable vacations for the average German worker.
		A large quay was built at the seaside in the center of the complex, with moorings for the KdF cruise ships "Robert Ley" and "Wilhelm Gustloff."
		Visitors arrived by ship at the quay and proceeded to one of two reception halls (colonnade in the center distance) to be assigned to rooms.
	www.thirdreichruins.com /prora.htm (1533 words)

	Ship history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		MNC -- The Birth of a Ship -- History -- Passenger Era 1930 — 1970
		Matson begins its famed cruise ship era with four “white ships” — the Lurline and the Matsonia — which.
		Our Titanic model ship also known as the RMS Titanic is handcrafted and 40” long ship history.
	www.internet-hunt.net /ship-history.html (313 words)

	Wilhelm Gustloff
		The Wilhelm Gustloff was a ship built by Blohm & Voss Schiffswerft und Maschinenfabrik in Hamburg and named after the assassinated leader of the Swiss Nazi party, Wilhelm Gustloff.
		On 30th January 1945 left port in Gdynia with more than 7000 passengers (official data: 173 crew, 918 seamen from 2nd school division, 162 wounded, 4424 refugees and 373, 17-25 years old, women from Kriegsmarine support service; there were also few hundrets other civilians).
		At 21:10 ship was hit by 3 torpedoes from soviet submarine S-13 and after about 50 minutes sank.
	sabaoth.infoserve.pl /danzig-online/gustloff/gustloffe.html (194 words)

	Postcards of Hamburg harbour in the 1930s - Cap Arcona - Wilhelm Gustloff - Robert Ley - Monte Rosa - St. Louis
		The Wilhelm Gustloff (25,484 grt, 684 ft. long) was the first KdF-ship, completed in 1938 and managed by Hamburg-Süd.
		The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff may have been the worst disaster in the history of shipping, claiming the lives of an estimated 9,000 people or more.
		During WW2 she was a naval accomodation ship at Kiel, but was badly damaged by bombs in 1944.
	www.timetableimages.com /maritime/images/ha.htm (615 words)

	Maritime Travel
		The second tier studies the ship as a machine, both in itself and in a military or economic system.
		The third tier consists of the archaeology of maritime cultures, in which nautical technology, naval warfare, trade and shipboard societies are studied.
		First the remains of ships and cargoes, even organic materials, are sometimes better preserved under water or in bottom sediments.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/133/maritime-travel.html (1420 words)

	Amazon.com: CRUISE SHIPS: An Evolution in Design: Books: Philip Dawson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The prototypes for a mass-market clientele emerged in the German KdF ships Wilhelm Gustloff and Robert Ley.
		In the post-war years both ends of the industry have expanded dramatically, and the myriad of ships which have been built, and are being built, are described in detail.
		Provides a reflective description of the luxury cruise ships complete with analyses of design influences and descriptions of concepts, requirements and social and economical factors surrounding ship design.
	www.amazon.com /CRUISE-SHIPS-Evolution-Philip-Dawson/dp/0851776604 (1255 words)

	S 13 - The Tedningen Article
		The first conclusion one arrives at is that the Gustloff disaster was not known at all to Swedish News Media, at least until April 1945.
		The ship was owned by KdF and had visited Stockholm in June 1939 with the German Athletic Troop who were then participating in the "Lingiaden" (Gymnastics) in Stockholm.
		Therefore, no one outside of Germany were even aware of the existence of the Gustloff, the Goya, the General Steuben and so many other ships which met a watery grave.
	www.compunews.com /s13/article.htm (1121 words)

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