The reason this tragedy is not as recognized as the titanic, is because the Titanic was the center of attention that year, nothing was really going on and the boom, the worlds biggest ship sinks. This ship sank during ww2, where way more things happened, with some of the most recognizable battles in history such as dday and the battle for Stalingrad happening.
@toranziancentralnetwork We are applying 'modern' thinking to a 78 year old situation. Putting it succinctly, the Soviets were out for retribution in response to what the German Nazis had done to Mother Russian and her peoples.
Because the winning side isn't going to tout its war crimes. Both sides committed war crimes tho you can argue Germany and Japan did it more commonly but the winning side of wars isn't going to just go " Yeah we did war crimes lets put our commanders of trial along with the rest".
@@Whatatwist2009 This was not a war crime. Under international law, the ship was a legitimate target. "As Wilhelm Gustloff had been fitted with anti-aircraft guns, and the Germans did not mark her as a hospital ship, no notification of her operating in a hospital capacity had been given and, as she was transporting military personnel, she did not have any protection as a hospital ship under international accords". A terrible tragedy, certainly, but NOT a war crime
If you combined the casualties of the SS Sultana, SS Atlantic, SS Arctic, RMS Titanic, RMS Empress of Ireland, RMS Lusitania, HMHS Britannic, and the Halifax Explosion (deadliest explosion before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima), it would be equal to the Wilhelm Gustloff. Eric Braeden (You may remember him as his portrayal of John Jacob Astor IV from the 1997 movie "Titanic" and on "The Young and the Restless"), was a survivor on board this ship.
You may combine all the casaulties from shipwrecks you mentioned, or you may just take casaulties from hospital vessel "Armenia". She was sunk by german aviation 8 november 1941. Approximately 7000-10000 wounded soldiers and civilian refugees from Crimea were on board. Only 8(eight) survived.
@@Sergey_Sukhov About 5000 died, at the sinking of the Armenia! Any ship carrying military equipment, personal, is a fair game for the enemy! Gustloff also carried 900 military personnel returning from training for the new Type 21 submarine.
@@mathewm7136 The guy's point still stands? It was a disaster that far exceeded Titanic's casualty rate. Many people only know about the Titanic disaster; they are the ones who don't know their history
@@SLS-StudioLoveSpace The Soviet Naval forces also knew that it was carrying civilians yet they still sank it. There’s also that to take into consideration
judging by your username Im also going to assume you either dont know or deny that the soviet submarine commander marinesko knew full well that the ships he was sinking both that night and the days following were chock full of civilians and posed no danger to the submarine. They were sunk out of a perceived need for revenge. It should also be noted that marinesko was demoted to lieutenant and dishonourably discharged from the military and was a heavy drinker. Not the most savvy of characters I would say. Between the Gustloff and the Steuben he killed something around 14,000 people. Most of which were civilians trying to flee the equal brutality of the red army.
so the lights being turned off make the ship float better, what great science you have. or maybe if they hadn't turned their lights on the ship wouldn't have been torpedoed? is that what you meant?
Worst Maritime Disaster In WarTime considered as War Casualties more than 9000 people died Worst Maritime Disaster in Peaceful is MV Doña Paz killed more than 4000 people this tragedy is very sad rest in peace who died on this two tragedies
I watched a documentary describing the fear the German civilians had for the rapidly approaching Soviet army and what those soldiers would do to them; the documentary suggested the ship was far more packed than this film portrays. Jammed together, in the dark, in a sinking ship, unable to get free. Absolute horror.
The scene with the people stuck in the enclosed promenade are makes everything so much worse. To know this actually happened and peopl really died like that. We will remember those who died onboard.
I don't even think the worst bit was the sinking, I feel the worst bit was being stranded in the middle of the freezing Baltic destined to die a cold death.
@@amaritineenthusiast not just the people stranded in the Baltic sea but the thousands trapped inside the rapidly flooding ship I think that must have been even worse those in the sea had a slightly better chance of survival.
😢 one of my grandmas once told me that she heard explosions and the strange sounds of a sinking ship, but as a little kid she didn't know what was happening. She asked a crew member of the refugee ship she was taken to. He didn't tell her that a ship was going down and how lucky they were that their captain had decided to stay in the shallow coastal waters
This is so sad. The poor lives lost at such a young age. And the boy screaming “Mom? Mom?!” So horrified is so sad. As the place flooded and they both most likely died, and never got to hug his mom in his last moments. And the people trapped under the glass at the end, they look so terrified. They’re life about to end, horribly. May all those lives Rest In Peace.
@@shraboniroydebnath7897 The ship was painted in the colors of a warship, where are the red crosses on the sides? If Hitler and the idiots in the offices next to him had not decided to attack the USSR, perhaps there would not have been a disaster in the Baltic Sea, which claimed 10,000 lives. For idiots, the Russians and Russia are to blame for everything. Take some pills, maybe the skills of healthy thinking and reasoning will return to you. )))
The way I learned about this ship was a book called “Salt to the Sea” by Ruta Sepetys (amazing book) and I didn’t realize how tragic this was. The Wilhem Gustloff is ignored with killing 9,400 people and the titanic is titled the most deadly. Pay attention!
More deaths than the Titanic Britannic Lusitania Halifax explosion Empress of Ireland Sultana The Atlantic Combined Over 9400 people died A great many of them were loyal to the nazi third riech they can rot in hell I hope they died slow painful deaths 😡 Though for the innocent civilians caught in the crossfire of this brutal war may they rest in peace 😢
If you think about it, the captain of S-13 was the most deadly soviet sub commander. He was alone responsible for taking the lives of 13,667 individuals (combined from the Gustloff and Steuben)
@@brayli86 Attacking the USSR, German troops killed 27 million people. Of these, 18 are civilians. What if it's not genocide? but who cares about that! Fucking hypocrites!
@@brayli86 Tbf, Russia suffered the most under the german attack. The anger towards even the civilian popuation was understable. What this is a good example of is civilians, having nothing to do with that at all, fleeing from the russians in this case, being mixed in with military organisation.
@Gilad Pellaeon I didn't say worse. Both Formations were pure evil. The worst is: there are still milions of people soaked with old system, as a result present war is raging.
@@brayli86 To be honest...Gustloff was a perfectly legitimate target on legal terms.The only thing that MIGHT have protected her was if she was declared a hospital ship(which she was before) AND not carry any armamanent.Tragic as her sinking was,she was a legitimate target.Same goes for the Steuben
Yes. Both Gustloff and Steuben were Kriegsmarine auxilary ships, armed with AAA. Steuben, for exaple, shot down 10 soviet airplanes Pe-2 10.10.44 as part of anti-air defence of Libau port. Both of them were 100% military fair target, armed and escorted. Gustloff was escorted by one destroyer "Lowe", Steuben by two destroyers. It was impossible to know, that on board there were thousands of refugees. German officers, who decided to take them on board of military vessels, are complitely responsible for their deaths.
@@Sergey_Sukhov "Completely fair target" Yeah, justifying the murder of civilians because the commies were shooting nazis seems kinda delusional to me. Two wrongs don't make a right.
@@Sergey_Sukhov The war is a crime, no matter how you try to отбеливать this scumbags. The crew of this submarine must had been put in jail forever. But of course, the winners can do all the manner of atrocities, and then hundreds of years later such amoebas like you will protect them on the public forums. What a great world we exist in.
@@Sergey_Sukhov it is still a commercial ship used for passengers and therefore its not justifiable to sink an non-warship. i don’t know from where you got your „information“ about the military usage. it’s 100% a warcrime.
@@Sturmjuergen44 at least open wikipedia - "As Wilhelm Gustloff had been fitted with anti-aircraft guns, and the Germans did not mark her as a hospital ship, no notification of her operating in a hospital capacity had been given and, as she was transporting military personnel, she did not have any protection as a hospital ship under international accords"
The ship was created for around 1.900 people (staff included). But in 1945 it was jammed with over 10.000 people, most of them civilians, but also many soldiers (what made the ship a legitimate target for the Sowjet submarine, especially since it wasn't marked as a refugee ship).
It was a desperate packing of fleeing people to take as much as possible, the war was going on, the Red Army was approaching, people and soldiers were running away. The ship itself was designed to transport a maximum of 2,000 people
I'm fond of this particular piece of history, i didn't know there was a movie. I thought we'd been done with Evanescence songs in TH-cam for 15 years though...
Unbelievable. if this was shown in the theaters, people would be shocked and visibly crying... like I was watching this clip. The "TITANIC" movie pales by comparison in the sinking scenes. This was beyond tragic of nearly 9,000 men, women and children lost! 😢
Actually, Russia isn't really that popular internationally at the moment. There is no longer a "need" to suppress the truth not to hurt their feelings.
Problem is, you'll never see a mention of this disaster in World History textbooks because the publishers wants to make the Allied powers look like superheroes with capes on themselves. While the Axis powers did cause a war, yes, the Allied powers did horrible things to their enemies as well.
@@DKrueger1994 Such as Majdanek, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dahau... Yep? No, my stupid friend, you'll never wash blood of tens of millions people fried alife by your country!
@@DKrueger1994 ya, it is not as well known because it was Germans dying, and being a German in the 40s basically meant (to low IQ people) you were a nazi and deserved it.
Not sure where you get the info but the area was cleaned up by the Soviets, Soviet divers also. There are no remains visible. Unless deep in the hull where nobody can access due to hazards.
Pleas don't desecrate the memory of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff by referring to it as a cruise ship. It was a passenger liner built in the golden age of ocean travel. This was long before the likes of cruise ships started to litter the ocean.
Yes, it was a nice ship, but it was registered as a warship in the state of the German Navy, it was armed, it carried military units and weapons on its last voyage. It was an authorized military target.
@@martinnebola9586 The terms of the sinking is barbaric for a few reasons. The Soviet Naval forces knew it was transporting civilians yet the S-13 commander still authorised the firing of torpedos upon the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, despite the fact intelligence stated it had multiple civilians on board. There’s also the fact that the number of civilians compared to military presence. Civilians on board outnumbered armed Wehrmacht troops and Kriegsmarine sailors 10-1. There was 4 Kriegsmarine captains on board, a couple hundred Kriegsmarine sailors, and mainly injured and exhausted Wehrmacht troops. There were many more civilians on board compared to these military “targets.” Yet the ship was still fired upon. I draw strong parallels to the sinking of the Britannic by a German U-boat in 1916. It was very clearly a transport ship that bared the marking of the British Red Cross, carrying injured, exhausted British soldiers. A crew of Royal Navy sailors, a bridge command crew and multiple nurses and doctors. Yet it was still torpedoed and sank (as we believe of course as there are conspiracy theories but I’m not going to delve into them.)
This event was so tragic and sad in many ways. Despite it happening in our backyard (the south Baltic sea) it is almost never talked about nor commemorated in Swedish media and/or newspapers. I can't imagine the horror the passengers must have gone through that freezing January night.
А в шведских СМИ не рассказывают как во время ВМВ шведы поставляли в гитлеровскую Германию стратегические материалы для производства брони танков , подшипников ?
@@emeraldshield9419 Приезжайте в Россию в Санкт-Петербург !. Я покажу Вам улицу имени Маринеско , дом , в котором он жил , сквер его имени и памятник в его честь !
А про теплоход "Армения" никто не помнит,когда 6 ноября 1941 года корабль эвакуировал 7000 человек из Севастополя , а 7 ноября его потопил немецкий торпедоносец. Выжило 8 человек.
The number of 1215 people survived, but nearly 9,000 people died in the see at a very cold winter night. This is the largest catastrophy on the see in the history. For the passengers in port Gdynia after a boarding a number of 8000 people, there was no journal to make the notes of the last names for the rest of the passengers. Willhelm Gustloff confirmed by telegram that on the board that horrible night was around 10 thousand people.
For anyone saying that this was forgot and that this should have gotten more attention than the Titanic or Lusitania are disconnected from reality. It’s been theorized that Nazi Germany was trying to keep this disaster on the down low because they didn’t want it to affect morale so that is a possible and most likely reason this wasn’t really discussed about. Plus this tragedy was done during the most major war in history, people die, it’s just a sad part of life. Also the sinking of this ship didn’t cause a neutral nation to war (simplifying history of sake of writing) nor did it cause a huge investigation with multiple huge name families on board that caused change in regulations.
step 1 get on a boat step 2 its dinner time and eat step 3 sleep step 4 you heard explosion step 5 the crew came to your room to evacuate the ship is sinking step 6 take all your stuff and run step 7 is to heavy and decided to leave all your stuff step 8 get on a lifeboat step 9 the ship is sinking dramitcly step 10 you have no choice is to leave the ship step 11 you found land step 12 you found a cellphone step 13 call rescue boats and helicopters to help the other people from the ship step 14 you went home safe step 15 just sleep
Step 16: Get nightmares about the other night Step 17: wake up swinging and screaming and realize very quickly that you'd relive that tragic experience for the remainder of your entire life.
Qual é o nome da música que toca no vídeo?e a mesma trilha sonora do filme ou foi criatividade do criador do vídeo ? porque se foi pela criatividade tá de parabéns.
Was will man da studieren? Menschliches Versagen? Das einzige was dort schuld trägt und was man ändern kann ist: gierige Seeleute die einen Ständer auf Auszeichungen kriegen zu verbannen, und stattdessen Leute einsetzen die vor dem Angriff erstmal nachschauen was für ein Schiff das ist, und selbst wenn die geschossen haben, sich vielleicht an die See regeln halten und selbst mithelfen um leben zu retten
Sadly, 9400 is just a number if we let it buried in history. Most of them were kids and women. Everyone knows Titanic, but very few have heard of MV Wihelm Gustloff. If it was not a Nazi ship. If it was a British ship sunk by Germany, the story would be different, and we might name the day 30 Jan. after the ship. Just read the book "Salt to the sea" , God bless those souls.
The ship being owned by the nazis isn't the reason why it's so unknown, like the Hiedenburg was also a Nazi airship and it's still famous despite only 30 people dying.
Думаю, даже если б Маринеско знал что параход с гражданскими , он бы все равно его утопил. Они были очень злы на немцев. За Армению, за Ленинград, за Все. На трех торпедах были надписи За родину, За советский народ, За Ленинград.
Вильгельм Густлаф - плавучая казарма 2-й учебной дивизии подводных лодок Германии. Вооружен и шел с эскортом миноносца "Лёве". На борту - 918 подводников из учебной флотилии и военный груз дивизии. 100% законная цель. Если он его не потопил, его бы в штрафбат отправили и правильно.
Конечно утопил, и был бы прав. Это проблемы врагов, что они перевозили своих гражданских на корабле с зенитными орудиями и сотней экипажей подводных лодок.
É muito triste com o que houve com eles apesar de nessa época a Alemanha estava cometendo a maior atrocidade da humanidade Espero que isso nunca se repita
Na ja da wären noch Belgien Russland USA und so weiter man kann nicht alle greultaten Deutschland in die Schuhe schieben ☝️man sollte sich mal ein bisschen mehr mit Weltgeschichte befassen !!!!!!!!!!
@@roterbaron6862 he talking about world war 2 only when germany burned kids alive or killed people with gas didnt give food and russia and japan were bad too but eua and united kingdom gave at least food.
The reason the Wilhelm Gustloff is not remembered like the Titanic is obvious. The Titanic was an accident, whereas the Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk as a legitimate target of war.
@@StalinKilled100MillionForJoke The Armenia had lost its Hospital Ship rating officially by mid 1941, as it not only actively carried out troop and weaponry transportation, but also was armed with multiple Anti-Aircraft Weapons and military board crews during the time of its sinking. Also, it had a convoy of two military boats and two fighter planes. The sinking was horrible and unjust for the people on board, especially the civilians. But it wasn't a unreasonable brutality. The Germans were under the legitimate assumption, that the Armenia was carrying combatants and armaments. The WG was sunken out of spite and hate. It maintained its civilians status and very much operated as a active civilian transportation craft. The Soviets plundered it right afterwards too.
Sinceramente , me gustaron más estos 5 minutos que las horas de Titanic, con muchos menos medios y mucho menos dinero seguro, IMPRESIONANTE!, la historia de este gran buque y su trágico final son los grandes olvidados, descansen en paz sus 9.613 víctimas.
@@diegoam3293 Dejando de lado las películas (respecto a las cuales, si bien Titanic no es perfecta, es mejor, considero). Ambas historias reales fueron tragedias; sin importar que el Gustloff haya sido alemán en medio de la SGM, la inmensa mayoría de sus pasajeros eran civiles, muchos de ellos probablemente ni siquiera apoyaban las políticas de su régimen. Así que creo que su nacionalidad no implica que mereciesen tan cruel destino.
Era un barco bastardo con 9.000 escoria de diferentes sexos y edades a bordo. Toda esta "nación alemana" no merecía nada más que la muerte más cruel, y ahogarse en este barco aún es inexplicable para ellos la misericordia del Señor, porque merecían ser torturados a todos durante mucho tiempo y dolorosamente.
@@carlosadriantinajerovelazc4338 Todos ellos eran partidarios de Hitler, mataron a nuestra gente, y es una pena que entonces, en 1945, los lamentáramos y no los convirtiéramos en esclavos, como querían hacer con nosotros y con nuestro pueblo. ¡Esta muerte fue injustamente fácil en comparación con lo que merecían!
@@ОлегКочережкин ¿Es en serio ese comentario? Jajaja qué lamentable y simplista pensamiento. ¿Los conociste a todos? ¿A los 10,000+ abordo? No conozco ningún pueblo que en la historia, haya tenido al 100% de su población de acuerdo con su régimen. Siempre hay personas que no están de acuerdo. Seguramente había inocentes a bordo. ¿Los niños pequeños deseaban "matar" a "tu" gente? Claro que el régimen nazi hizo cosas terribles, eso no se niega. Pero el hundimiento del Gustloff está injustificado y sin duda fue una tragedia. Los deseos de venganza como retribución a la injusticia solo perpetúan la violencia, es una lástima. Espero que eventualmente logres crecer más allá de esa lógica, en serio, lo deseo positivamente.
@@carlosadriantinajerovelazc4338 Quién de los alemanes apoyó a Hitler allí, y quién no lo apoyó, que Dios lo entienda. Todo lo que puedo hacer es desear que todos los hijos alemanes se reúnan con él lo antes posible.
My great grandfather an SS officer drowned trying to save a 2 year old. When I found out I lived in the same town as her I asked about my grandfather and she broke into tears saying that that man was her adopted father and he was a kind man. A man who was deceived by Hitler. He died saving my grandmother. She died on January 30th 2015 at the age of 72. I never knew Grandpa Randolph but I wish I could’ve.
Добрый человек в СС?- очень смешно, истинный ариец наверное. А мой прадед погиб в плену в 1941 г. в шталаге и виноват в этом наверное такой же "добрый" офицер СС.
I don't know why they turned on the lights U-boat already saw that I think that's why the ship had sunk because the U-Boat saw the lights and attacked the ship like what happened to the Lusitania and the other ships that has been sadly sunk by torpedo r.i.p. for those passengers that passed away on the wilhelm gustloff😢
The Gustloff turned on Navigation Lights to Warn an Incoming set of Mine sweepers on the Same Route which was very Compact and tight so the Captain of the Vessel issued that an Threat of Collision is greater then the Threat of an Torpedo
Вспомните теплоход Армения. Там тоже было 6000-10000 человек.Спаслость 8.И его потопили днём с Ю-87. Хотя с другой стороны он тоже был покрашен по военному и был с оружием и сопровождением. Так же как и Густлов.Так что как не пичально но Око за Око.
Screw u guys I hope all of your government gets what coming soon because you will pay for what your stupid vodka drunk president is doing to Ukraine btw An Eye for An Eye
@@Chase1945 я не коммунист. Я тебе констатирую факты. Запад загнивает. И пока люди из Запада будут смотреть телевизор и слушать своих политиков так и будет
@@Wildcatttttthe more tragic thing about it was that the germans probably even gunned down the lifeboats, or idk i forgot and lifeboats wouldnt even be launched probably so that doesnt make sense
Thats why the woman said nothing can happen to us because theres a war in the city so they get in the ship. There was 3 torpedo's ahead the wilhelm gustloff sink fast because theres 3 holes in the ship.
Um grande crime na guerra....mas tbm com uma serie de erros... lamentável o cara que ordenou esse ataque ainda recebeu uma medalha...e eles sabiam que esse navio levava grande parte de refugiados
it is mournful that the Luftwaffe destroyed a bunch of Soviet ships with refugees and received iron crosses. it is mournful that the people who sank Athenia and Niagara received. iron crosses. They started the war they elected Hitler as leader and they supported the start of the war where many diedJews, French, British, Belgians, Soviet people, and many others, so I wonder why they do not repent of their actions
@@ScienceDiscovererIt’s a pity Dudley Morton wasn’t sent to prison, which he deserved for shooting those fleeing. And about the prison that you said, this is a blatant lie, because after the war he became the commander of a submarine divisionworld or another watered wrapper instead of if you are interested in viewing all sources of information
O Wilhelm Gustloff afundou porque naquela noite a névoa era muito densa e a tripulação ligou as luzes de navegação para evitar que outros navios se colidisem com ele Mas tinha um submarino na area que viu as luzes e pensou que era um navio de tropas alemão e a tripulação do Gustloff desligou as luzes ao ver aquele submarino, mas já era tarde demais
@@titanusghidorah7964 Eleven days after the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the S-13 sank another transport ship, the General Steuben, with the loss of 3,300 lives. "Roscoe White"
Yes, it was a nice ship, but it was registered as a warship in the state of the German Navy, it was armed, it carried military units and weapons on its last voyage. It was an authorized military target.
Some say up to 9,400 died that night also but still a huge loss of life regardless to all the civilians that lost their lives may they rest in peace but for the thousands of Nazis and Hitler loyalists who were onboard that died I really don't give a damn about
Happy 82nd Birthday Herr Eric Braeden, survivor of the Wilhelm Gustloff, casualty of the Titanic (playing J J Astor). Remind me NEVER to board a ship with you!
This is an incredible piece of history along with other cruise ship disasters. Was this from a film? It's incredibly done. Almost puts Titanic to shame.
Es ist tatsächlich so passiert und hat ungefähr das 5fache an Todesopfern von der Titanic gefordert, wobei man dazu sagen kann das aufgrund der Umstände der Abfahrt selbst die einzige Quelle aus dem Tagebuch eines Offizieres nicht ganz zu glauben ist, weil darin steht das das legedlich die Leute sind die er selbst anbord kommen sehen hat; und es gab eine ganze Menge mehr Leute die an anderen enden anbord gingen und er selbst auch nicht die gesammte Zeit dort war
Как же я согласен. Я даже и не мог представить насколько люди на Западе зомбированы. Оказывается, что СОВЕТСКИЕ СОЛДАТЫ - нацисты, а немецкие нацисты - освободители земель. Забывать начинают...
@@jonathanmcnair6064 the majority of them were people scared of the russians, that at the time were gaining territory, known for their brutality against the civilians
@@lallawmzuali6083 They were Nazis and their families who were fleeing the consequences of their actions in the Baltic states. It was a huge loss of life, but these were people who supported an ideology who treated others as subhuman.. so I don't really have any empathy for them in their own demise.
@@jonathanmcnair6064 Yes, ofc there were Nazis and their families there. But most of the people on board and who perished were civilians being evacuated in Operation Hannibal, almost 9.000 of the 10.000 people on board to be exact. It takes maybe 30 seconds to search up this information. Not to mention 5.000 of the casualties were literal children - do you want to tell me they deserved to die for something that was entirely out of their control? Because they were born into a country that did terrible things?
Расплата за те зверства что они творили на нашей земле, за Хатынь , за концлагеря, за Сталинград, за блокаду Питера, за Москву, за Курскую дугу, за Псков, да всего не перечислишь. После войны стало известно количество городов на советской территории было разрушено 1710 городов и посёлков городского типа и более 70 000 сёл и деревень, 32 000 промышленных предприятий, разгромлено 98 000 колхозов, 1876 совхозов. И самое главное ..... 27 000 000 погибших советских людей, а это русские , белорусы, украинцы, татары, чеченцы, удмурты и ещё куча других национальностей.😡😠😥
The lights were shut off manually, but most ships - even back then - have emergency generators that will turn on lights to help evacuations. These can't be turned off unless the emergency generators also get destroyed, which doesn't necessarily happen until the ship is underwater.
MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13. 9,400 people died, making it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history. Originally constructed as a cruise ship for the Nazi Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude) organization in 1937, Wilhelm Gustloff had been requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine (German navy) in 1939. She served as a hospital ship in 1939 and 1940. She was then assigned as a floating barracks for naval personnel in Gotenhafen before being fitted with anti-aircraft guns and put into service to transport evacuees in 1945.
@@ottosaxo, "Ланкастрия', "Вирония", "Атения", "Иосиф Сталин", "Армения" и прочие пассажирские пароходы, потопленные немцами - немцы безнаказанно топили гражданские суда, наплевав на конвенции и красный крест. Месть была, как со стороны союзников, так со стороны советов. Правда про "Вильгельм Густлофф" не говорят одно: судно имело культовый статус в Нац. Германии; эвакуация была из одного из самых главных центров подготовки моряков и курсантов военного флота, эвакуировалась городская администрация и пр. структуры, + солдаты, эвакуировавшиеся из котла. Т. о. это было судно, а корабль, а то есть законная цель.
Alexander Iwanowitsch Marinesko, the commander who shot the Wilhelm Gustloff knowing there were mainly injured and refugees on board, is an offical war hero of the Soviet Union is Russia till this day. In the originally german city Kaliningrad a monument was build for him that still stands today. A law forbids russian historians till today to publish critism of Soviet military acts during ww2.
@@KaljmiusDonetskDPR Yes the Nazi regieme is too blame aswell of course. Nevertheless it's a shame to call a person who intentionally killed thousands of civillians a war hero.
You still don’t know about the death of the civilian hospital ship Armenia, sunk by the Nazis near Yalta in the Crimea on November 7, 1941, then about 10,000 civilians died, including children, as well as many wounded Red Army soldiers. The steamer was sunk by two flights of Yu-87 Shtuk aircraft, the pilots saw the ship jam-packed with children, women and the wounded, but on purpose over and over again they made combat approaches to it, dropping bombs and shooting from cannons. so Gsutav is just part of the punishment that befell the Nazis. This is a legitimate military target, fascist military units and submarine crews were evacuated on it!
@@flip849It is impossible to calculate the exact number of victims, they assume from 7 to 10 thousand, this is according to the lists of evacuees on that day, whose fate is not known. On the deck and on the sides were large red crosses, indicating a medical ship. Anti-aircraft machine guns were installed on it only because the ship, during the evacuation of the wounded, was repeatedly attacked by German pilots, who ignored the sanitary status of the ship. Escort from a pair of boats with two machine guns - it's ridiculous to call an armed convoy. There is no need to turn history around and praise fascism - the experience of the Second World War showed everything as it is ......
@@SEDUXXEN not being a pro-racist but this is false, nothing but Russian propaganda sites say “10000” people died. Also by your SAME logic, any ship that Carrie’s any military equipment is a legitimate target
Yes, it was a nice ship, but it was registered as a warship in the state of the German Navy, it was armed, it carried military units and weapons on its last voyage. It was an authorized military target.
@@martinnebola9586 thats somewhat misleading. Military personnel to a degree yes, they were tasked with crewing the ships for operation Hannibal, which was an effort to evacuate as many German civilians and wounded as possible from East Prussia before the Red Army arrived. While I take it with a grain of salt, the records of the Gustloff's last voyage do not indicate any weapons being carried, as the ship was gutted of any non-essential fittings and cargo to make room for passengers (they even emptied the swimming pools to cram in extra people) The reason it is not considered a war crime is because the allies claim that because of its designation as a barracks ship and its navy officers on board, that it was a legitimate threat. This was mainly done to cover up the fact that the soviets at the time knew that the Gustloff, Goya, Steuben and other Hannibal ships were tasked purely with the evacuation of civilians, but sunk them anyway. The aforementioned claim was mainly a PR attempt to save face for their future cold war enemy.
No. Soviet naval command, and commanding officer of S-13 Alexandr Marinesko thinked that transport was used for evacuation of german forces in East Prussia. So they think that german soldiers was onboard Gustloff and Steuben. Also Gustloff was a legitimate target: 1) Gustloff wasn't hospital ship ( no official declare, no special coliring ) since november 1940. 2)Gustloff was armed ship. 3) Gustloff was colored in military camouflage 4) Military escort ( destroyer Löwe) which is prohibited for hospital ships. 5) At least 1453 passengers was applied to military personnel.
The reason this tragedy is not as recognized as the titanic, is because the Titanic was the center of attention that year, nothing was really going on and the boom, the worlds biggest ship sinks. This ship sank during ww2, where way more things happened, with some of the most recognizable battles in history such as dday and the battle for Stalingrad happening.
I agree.
Also "We sunk a ship with 10,000 civilians onboard" doesn't sound good for the allies.
@@amaritineenthusiast Yeah that aswell💀
@toranziancentralnetwork We are applying 'modern' thinking to a 78 year old situation. Putting it succinctly, the Soviets were out for retribution in response to what the German Nazis had done to Mother Russian and her peoples.
@@JayYoung-ro3vu it's not modern morals or anything that's just what the allies did, they censored it.
The Titanic is remembered, the Wilhelm Gustloff is ignored, nearly 10,000 men, women and children died on that ship, some 1,500 on the Titanic.
Because the winning side isn't going to tout its war crimes. Both sides committed war crimes tho you can argue Germany and Japan did it more commonly but the winning side of wars isn't going to just go " Yeah we did war crimes lets put our commanders of trial along with the rest".
@@Whatatwist2009 it was the commies that did it seeking revenge is my guess they didnt care if it was a civilian ship
Nazis on the Wilhelm, so 🤷♂️
@@Whatatwist2009 This was not a war crime. Under international law, the ship was a legitimate target. "As Wilhelm Gustloff had been fitted with anti-aircraft guns, and the Germans did not mark her as a hospital ship, no notification of her operating in a hospital capacity had been given and, as she was transporting military personnel, she did not have any protection as a hospital ship under international accords". A terrible tragedy, certainly, but NOT a war crime
@@MasterControl-MCP what about the civillians dummy
If you combined the casualties of the SS Sultana, SS Atlantic, SS Arctic, RMS Titanic, RMS Empress of Ireland, RMS Lusitania, HMHS Britannic, and the Halifax Explosion (deadliest explosion before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima), it would be equal to the Wilhelm Gustloff.
Eric Braeden (You may remember him as his portrayal of John Jacob Astor IV from the 1997 movie "Titanic" and on "The Young and the Restless"), was a survivor on board this ship.
I am literally watching a scene with him on the young and restless-NEVER KNEW THIS
I Don’t Get It.
You may combine all the casaulties from shipwrecks you mentioned, or you may just take casaulties from hospital vessel "Armenia". She was sunk by german aviation 8 november 1941. Approximately 7000-10000 wounded soldiers and civilian refugees from Crimea were on board. Only 8(eight) survived.
@@Sergey_Sukhov FINALLY!!!! I AM SO HAPPY TO FIND SOMEONE ELSE WHO KNOWS ABOUT THIS!!!
@@Sergey_Sukhov About 5000 died, at the sinking of the Armenia!
Any ship carrying military equipment, personal, is a fair game for the enemy!
Gustloff also carried 900 military personnel returning from training for the new Type 21 submarine.
Much more of a horrific tragedy than the Titanic , but yet not as known ! Very sad story .
Titanic happened during peacetime. Know your history.
true.
Bravo Marinesco !
Nobody remembers them because they were on the losing side of the war and nobody cares about the losing side. The victors write the history books.
@@mathewm7136 The guy's point still stands? It was a disaster that far exceeded Titanic's casualty rate. Many people only know about the Titanic disaster; they are the ones who don't know their history
hits home. my grandma was supposed to be on this boat but somehow missed it.
Really actually that was a good choice😀
Wait realy so your 70 years old now cause wilhelm gustloff sunk many years ago😂
@@AikenJeffT_T lol what?
@@AikenJeffT_T ?
@@AikenJeffT_T it's his/her grandma bro
An interesting fact: if people had not turned on the navigation (light) to drive in heavy fog, the ship would not have sunk
after all, you need to think about actions, because due to the fact that they turned on this light, 9 thousand died
@@SLS-StudioLoveSpace The Soviet Naval forces also knew that it was carrying civilians yet they still sank it. There’s also that to take into consideration
judging by your username Im also going to assume you either dont know or deny that the soviet submarine commander marinesko knew full well that the ships he was sinking both that night and the days following were chock full of civilians and posed no danger to the submarine. They were sunk out of a perceived need for revenge. It should also be noted that marinesko was demoted to lieutenant and dishonourably discharged from the military and was a heavy drinker. Not the most savvy of characters I would say. Between the Gustloff and the Steuben he killed something around 14,000 people. Most of which were civilians trying to flee the equal brutality of the red army.
so the lights being turned off make the ship float better, what great science you have. or maybe if they hadn't turned their lights on the ship wouldn't have been torpedoed? is that what you meant?
@@johnhaxby306 yes the second one is what they meant.
Worst Maritime Disaster In WarTime considered as War Casualties more than 9000 people died
Worst Maritime Disaster in Peaceful is MV Doña Paz killed more than 4000 people this tragedy is very sad rest in peace who died on this two tragedies
Oof
In get in boats inn fell because gussloff fell too
4,300 dead in MV Doña Paz
As a Filipino, the Doña Paz incident hit me hard....
Армению забыл!
I watched a documentary describing the fear the German civilians had for the rapidly approaching Soviet army and what those soldiers would do to them; the documentary suggested the ship was far more packed than this film portrays. Jammed together, in the dark, in a sinking ship, unable to get free. Absolute horror.
What is the name of the documentary?
@@zvladdBlacked
The scene with the people stuck in the enclosed promenade are makes everything so much worse. To know this actually happened and peopl really died like that. We will remember those who died onboard.
After I said promenade it says are, I meant to say area
I don't even think the worst bit was the sinking, I feel the worst bit was being stranded in the middle of the freezing Baltic destined to die a cold death.
@@amaritineenthusiast not just the people stranded in the Baltic sea but the thousands trapped inside the rapidly flooding ship I think that must have been even worse those in the sea had a slightly better chance of survival.
OK thats it, I'm cancelling our cruise
@@connorredshaw7994 yea trapped, jam packed with hundreds of other people and in the pitch black in freezing cold water, brutal af.
😢 one of my grandmas once told me that she heard explosions and the strange sounds of a sinking ship, but as a little kid she didn't know what was happening.
She asked a crew member of the refugee ship she was taken to. He didn't tell her that a ship was going down and how lucky they were that their captain had decided to stay in the shallow coastal waters
Fascist pigs. No one called you to steal land from the Slavs. You got what you deserve.
Firstly, Gustloff had 4 captains, secondly, they all wanted to save themselves
What song is this
@@markoprskalo6127Hi-Lo by evanescence
@@markoprskalo6127Hi-Lo by evanescence
This is so sad. The poor lives lost at such a young age. And the boy screaming “Mom? Mom?!” So horrified is so sad. As the place flooded and they both most likely died, and never got to hug his mom in his last moments. And the people trapped under the glass at the end, they look so terrified. They’re life about to end, horribly. May all those lives Rest In Peace.
@@Livvy_luvsu а кто вас просил начинать войну , а сколько вы уничтожили детей и женщин в России во второй мировой войне
This was all because of Russia.
@@shraboniroydebnath7897 The ship was painted in the colors of a warship, where are the red crosses on the sides? If Hitler and the idiots in the offices next to him had not decided to attack the USSR, perhaps there would not have been a disaster in the Baltic Sea, which claimed 10,000 lives. For idiots, the Russians and Russia are to blame for everything. Take some pills, maybe the skills of healthy thinking and reasoning will return to you. )))
@@shraboniroydebnath7897 что именно из-за России?
@@РустамСабиров-н8уBist du noch zu retten? Da sind wir gerade gar nicht. Leugnen sie nicht Morde mit anderen.
The way I learned about this ship was a book called “Salt to the Sea” by Ruta Sepetys (amazing book) and I didn’t realize how tragic this was. The Wilhem Gustloff is ignored with killing 9,400 people and the titanic is titled the most deadly. Pay attention!
I learned that tragedy by the infografic show
I just finished this book. Stayed up way too late too finish it and now I can't sleep because I keep thinking about it. What a horrible tragedy. 💔
@@becks871 same 😭
I read that book!
This dwarfs titanic and lusitania combined. This is so scary to even think about.
More deaths than the
Titanic
Britannic
Lusitania
Halifax explosion
Empress of Ireland
Sultana
The Atlantic
Combined
Over 9400 people died
A great many of them were loyal to the nazi third riech they can rot in hell I hope they died slow painful deaths 😡
Though for the innocent civilians caught in the crossfire of this brutal war may they rest in peace 😢
This tragedy should be known more..to better understand about the humanity and clemency..
No
@@StalinKilled100MillionForJoke so you don’t care about the death of 9k or more people?
4:17 Mad respect to that axe guy who tried to save other lives while risking his own.
Fr most people would be trying to find for themselves
If you think about it, the captain of S-13 was the most deadly soviet sub commander. He was alone responsible for taking the lives of 13,667 individuals (combined from the Gustloff and Steuben)
Yes, what a piece of crap creature. He must had rotten in a 2x2 metal room for the rest of his existence.
If I remember right he was awarded for this ship sinking or decades after the sinking him was given a monument
@@aka99 a monument for the murders of countless innocent men, women and children.... that's war i guess
@@infurioussYou mean Russians. Barbaric, disrespectful, terrorists.
@@aka99 i feel like if the made a monument about him then people should build Hitler monument too this is crazy
It is sad to see 9,000 out of 10,000 perished in the Wilhelm Gustloff
Another example of red star nation humanity.
@@brayli86 Attacking the USSR, German troops killed 27 million people. Of these, 18 are civilians. What if it's not genocide? but who cares about that! Fucking hypocrites!
@@brayli86 Tbf, Russia suffered the most under the german attack. The anger towards even the civilian popuation was understable. What this is a good example of is civilians, having nothing to do with that at all, fleeing from the russians in this case, being mixed in with military organisation.
@Gilad Pellaeon I didn't say worse. Both Formations were pure evil. The worst is: there are still milions of people soaked with old system, as a result present war is raging.
@@brayli86 To be honest...Gustloff was a perfectly legitimate target on legal terms.The only thing that MIGHT have protected her was if she was declared a hospital ship(which she was before) AND not carry any armamanent.Tragic as her sinking was,she was a legitimate target.Same goes for the Steuben
OMG I just realised today that is video is uploaded again thank you very much Marcos you don’t know how much I loved this one ❤
Eleven days after the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the S-13 sank another transport ship, the General Steuben, with the loss of 3,300 lives.
Yes. Both Gustloff and Steuben were Kriegsmarine auxilary ships, armed with AAA. Steuben, for exaple, shot down 10 soviet airplanes Pe-2 10.10.44 as part of anti-air defence of Libau port. Both of them were 100% military fair target, armed and escorted. Gustloff was escorted by one destroyer "Lowe", Steuben by two destroyers. It was impossible to know, that on board there were thousands of refugees. German officers, who decided to take them on board of military vessels, are complitely responsible for their deaths.
@@Sergey_Sukhov "Completely fair target"
Yeah, justifying the murder of civilians because the commies were shooting nazis seems kinda delusional to me. Two wrongs don't make a right.
@@Sergey_Sukhov The war is a crime, no matter how you try to отбеливать this scumbags. The crew of this submarine must had been put in jail forever. But of course, the winners can do all the manner of atrocities, and then hundreds of years later such amoebas like you will protect them on the public forums. What a great world we exist in.
@@Sergey_Sukhov it is still a commercial ship used for passengers and therefore its not justifiable to sink an non-warship. i don’t know from where you got your „information“ about the military usage. it’s 100% a warcrime.
@@Sturmjuergen44 at least open wikipedia - "As Wilhelm Gustloff had been fitted with anti-aircraft guns, and the Germans did not mark her as a hospital ship, no notification of her operating in a hospital capacity had been given and, as she was transporting military personnel, she did not have any protection as a hospital ship under international accords"
My mind can't comprehend how is 10.000 people can fit on a single ship at that size
The ship was created for around 1.900 people (staff included). But in 1945 it was jammed with over 10.000 people, most of them civilians, but also many soldiers (what made the ship a legitimate target for the Sowjet submarine, especially since it wasn't marked as a refugee ship).
No. This ship was meant to have maximum of 2000 people. Those 10,000 people on board were jam packed. And they were all stuck.
It was a desperate packing of fleeing people to take as much as possible, the war was going on, the Red Army was approaching, people and soldiers were running away. The ship itself was designed to transport a maximum of 2,000 people
1:59 this probably answers your question, they fit as many war refugees as they could
@@rittersportfanwhat is a sow jet?
I'm fond of this particular piece of history, i didn't know there was a movie.
I thought we'd been done with Evanescence songs in TH-cam for 15 years though...
Unbelievable. if this was shown in the theaters, people would be shocked and visibly crying... like I was watching this clip. The "TITANIC" movie pales by comparison in the sinking scenes.
This was beyond tragic of nearly 9,000 men, women and children lost! 😢
It was shown in theatres
Far more than 9 thousand. Estimates up to 15k at least.
@@jessicahitchens6926 bro the ship didn’t even have 15k people💀
Actually, Russia isn't really that popular internationally at the moment. There is no longer a "need" to suppress the truth not to hurt their feelings.
"Бойтесь побежденных немцев. Если они не утопили мир в крови, они зальют его слезами"
Наполеон I (1768-1821)
Подходящая цитата
Что за кино? Подскажешь?
@@АлександрХасанов-к3ш ты о чём, какое кино
Napoleon became hitler with just those words it's a shame that his imperialist and invading army did'nt last long 😂😂😂
Ибо нехуй на нашу страну нападать!!!
This song is so beautiful yet so chilling😢
This song and the Gustloff are forever linked
Like sleeping sun with titanic
Such a horrible tragedy this should be far more heard of
It would of been more well known had it not occurred during WW2
Tragedy you say? 9000 FASHISTS died at once. That was not a tragedy.
Problem is, you'll never see a mention of this disaster in World History textbooks because the publishers wants to make the Allied powers look like superheroes with capes on themselves. While the Axis powers did cause a war, yes, the Allied powers did horrible things to their enemies as well.
@@DKrueger1994 Such as Majdanek, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dahau... Yep?
No, my stupid friend, you'll never wash blood of tens of millions people fried alife by your country!
@@DKrueger1994 ya, it is not as well known because it was Germans dying, and being a German in the 40s basically meant (to low IQ people) you were a nazi and deserved it.
Rest In Peace to all the lives that were lost in this tragedy.
Большинство из них горят в аду.
@@ВладимирШемякин-х4к это точно
слава герою Моринеско!!!
@@ВладимирШемякин-х4к as you will too.
"Do not judge lest ye be judged"
@@ВладимирШемякин-х4к почему горят в аду? Они жертвы пропаганды Третьего Рейха, они не виноваты.
People who dive the wreck says its just heaps of skeletons everywhere.
Making Gustloff one of few cases I believe the high death toll estimates.
Not sure where you get the info but the area was cleaned up by the Soviets, Soviet divers also. There are no remains visible. Unless deep in the hull where nobody can access due to hazards.
@@Del-Canada may I ask where you got that info?
People who dive to the wreck, in actual fact, have seen no human emissions whatsoever. They are dissolved away.
The song is Hi-Lo from Evanescence actually. Broken Pieces Shine is from Evanescence as well but other album.
Pleas don't desecrate the memory of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff by referring to it as a cruise ship. It was a passenger liner built in the golden age of ocean travel. This was long before the likes of cruise ships started to litter the ocean.
Yes, it was a nice ship, but it was registered as a warship in the state of the German Navy, it was armed, it carried military units and weapons on its last voyage. It was an authorized military target.
@@martinnebola9586 You missed the point of my post.
@@martinnebola9586 that is hardly a warship, an armed civillian ship at best.
Allmost every freighter and ocean liner carried weapons back in ww2
@@martinnebola9586 The terms of the sinking is barbaric for a few reasons.
The Soviet Naval forces knew it was transporting civilians yet the S-13 commander still authorised the firing of torpedos upon the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, despite the fact intelligence stated it had multiple civilians on board.
There’s also the fact that the number of civilians compared to military presence.
Civilians on board outnumbered armed Wehrmacht troops and Kriegsmarine sailors 10-1. There was 4 Kriegsmarine captains on board, a couple hundred Kriegsmarine sailors, and mainly injured and exhausted Wehrmacht troops. There were many more civilians on board compared to these military “targets.” Yet the ship was still fired upon.
I draw strong parallels to the sinking of the Britannic by a German U-boat in 1916.
It was very clearly a transport ship that bared the marking of the British Red Cross, carrying injured, exhausted British soldiers. A crew of Royal Navy sailors, a bridge command crew and multiple nurses and doctors. Yet it was still torpedoed and sank (as we believe of course as there are conspiracy theories but I’m not going to delve into them.)
@@omendium2918 Now all you have to do is prove that Britanic was sunk by a U Boat. If anything, it is more in line with the sinking of the Lusitania.
Die Gustloff 2008 Music : Evanescence - Hilo
First supporting you since your first video
I hated war.....because it cost lives of soldiers and innocents
Same...
So good video! The real Wilhelm gustloof listed to the port side and sank
it did wdym
*MV Wilhelm Gustloff
The movie "Nacht über Gotenhafen" is WAY better, because the people there had lived through that desaster.
It’s also very sad that that amount if people died…but the music and the end is very good
This event was so tragic and sad in many ways. Despite it happening in our backyard (the south Baltic sea) it is almost never talked about nor commemorated in Swedish media and/or newspapers. I can't imagine the horror the passengers must have gone through that freezing January night.
А в шведских СМИ не рассказывают как во время ВМВ шведы поставляли в гитлеровскую Германию стратегические материалы для производства брони танков , подшипников ?
@@vladimirgarbuzyuk8408 you know while I don't agree with Russia often you are fully correct with this dude
@@emeraldshield9419 Приезжайте в Россию в Санкт-Петербург !. Я покажу Вам улицу имени Маринеско , дом , в котором он жил , сквер его имени и памятник в его честь !
А про теплоход "Армения" никто не помнит,когда 6 ноября 1941 года корабль эвакуировал 7000 человек из Севастополя , а 7 ноября его потопил немецкий торпедоносец. Выжило 8 человек.
Crazy
Bunu kimse bilmez.Sadece bazı gemiciler bilir(
The worst maritime disasters of all time are a German ship sunk by the Soviets and a Soviet ship sunk by the Germans. It's as ironic as tragic.
@@osasunaitor this is the vid💀
That lifeboat that went sideways scared the crap out of me
I’m lucky this was not titanic
@@alonsky2353 Titanic sank stable and steady. Most ships rolled over. They got very very lucky it was also a calm night
I know
But my real name was supposed to be “Alonski23”
Since I play roblox titanic.
Wilhelm Gustloff
1937 - 1945
Launched:5th May 1937
Sunk:30th January 1945
The number of 1215 people survived, but nearly 9,000 people died in the see at a very cold winter night. This is the largest catastrophy on the see in the history. For the passengers in port Gdynia after a boarding a number of 8000 people, there was no journal to make the notes of the last names for the rest of the passengers. Willhelm Gustloff confirmed by telegram that on the board that horrible night was around 10 thousand people.
There was actually 1,234 people who died and 9K+ people who died
what do you mean by "see". did you mean "sea"?
For anyone saying that this was forgot and that this should have gotten more attention than the Titanic or Lusitania are disconnected from reality.
It’s been theorized that Nazi Germany was trying to keep this disaster on the down low because they didn’t want it to affect morale so that is a possible and most likely reason this wasn’t really discussed about.
Plus this tragedy was done during the most major war in history, people die, it’s just a sad part of life.
Also the sinking of this ship didn’t cause a neutral nation to war (simplifying history of sake of writing) nor did it cause a huge investigation with multiple huge name families on board that caused change in regulations.
step 1 get on a boat
step 2 its dinner time and eat
step 3 sleep
step 4 you heard explosion
step 5 the crew came to your room to evacuate the ship is sinking
step 6 take all your stuff and run
step 7 is to heavy and decided to leave all your stuff
step 8 get on a lifeboat
step 9 the ship is sinking dramitcly
step 10 you have no choice is to leave the ship
step 11 you found land
step 12 you found a cellphone
step 13 call rescue boats and helicopters to help the other people from the ship
step 14 you went home safe
step 15 just sleep
Well now I'm not going on a boat again
Step 16: Get nightmares about the other night
Step 17: wake up swinging and screaming and realize very quickly that you'd relive that tragic experience for the remainder of your entire life.
a cellphone?? it’s 1945
Step 16:realize you are inside the cold freezing water
Acredito que na vida real foi bem pior , imagina o desespero destas pessoas.
Qual é o nome da música que toca no vídeo?e a mesma trilha sonora do filme ou foi criatividade do criador do vídeo ? porque se foi pela criatividade tá de parabéns.
@@wanessasilv Hi-lo (Radio-edit)
@@guigui88787 valeu 👍
@@wanessasilv 👍🏻
@Gilad Pellaeon I respect your opinion
What movie is this clip from? Thanks!
Estudar e valorizar a história para que isso nunca mais ocorra.
Was will man da studieren? Menschliches Versagen? Das einzige was dort schuld trägt und was man ändern kann ist: gierige Seeleute die einen Ständer auf Auszeichungen kriegen zu verbannen, und stattdessen Leute einsetzen die vor dem Angriff erstmal nachschauen was für ein Schiff das ist, und selbst wenn die geschossen haben, sich vielleicht an die See regeln halten und selbst mithelfen um leben zu retten
Sadly, 9400 is just a number if we let it buried in history.
Most of them were kids and women.
Everyone knows Titanic, but very few have heard of MV Wihelm Gustloff.
If it was not a Nazi ship. If it was a British ship sunk by Germany, the story would be different, and we might name the day 30 Jan. after the ship.
Just read the book "Salt to the sea" , God bless those souls.
All of them Nazis.
That's the price they pay when sailing under the Nazi flag during war.
The ship being owned by the nazis isn't the reason why it's so unknown, like the Hiedenburg was also a Nazi airship and it's still famous despite only 30 people dying.
It's because it happened in that time. Even if it would have been another countries ship, it would have happened during war.
this is christopherjb is gernab❤
@@wutrudoin only because it was live broadcast and the speed with which it happened.
Думаю, даже если б Маринеско знал что параход с гражданскими , он бы все равно его утопил. Они были очень злы на немцев. За Армению, за Ленинград, за Все. На трех торпедах были надписи За родину, За советский народ, За Ленинград.
Вильгельм Густлаф - плавучая казарма 2-й учебной дивизии подводных лодок Германии. Вооружен и шел с эскортом миноносца "Лёве". На борту - 918 подводников из учебной флотилии и военный груз дивизии. 100% законная цель. Если он его не потопил, его бы в штрафбат отправили и правильно.
Потому что Сталин пытался скрыть гибель Армении..
Конечно утопил, и был бы прав. Это проблемы врагов, что они перевозили своих гражданских на корабле с зенитными орудиями и сотней экипажей подводных лодок.
You realise the Soviets on their quest to liberate eastern Europe became just like the Nazis?
@@local_ITA А вы понимаете, что несёте чушь?
É muito triste com o que houve com eles apesar de nessa época a Alemanha estava cometendo a maior atrocidade da humanidade
Espero que isso nunca se repita
Mayor atrocidad?? Una de tantas solo que sale mas en las peliculas,
sim
Na ja da wären noch Belgien Russland USA und so weiter man kann nicht alle greultaten Deutschland in die Schuhe schieben ☝️man sollte sich mal ein bisschen mehr mit Weltgeschichte befassen !!!!!!!!!!
verdade
@@roterbaron6862 he talking about world war 2 only when germany burned kids alive or killed people with gas didnt give food and russia and japan were bad too but eua and united kingdom gave at least food.
The reason the Wilhelm Gustloff is not remembered like the Titanic is obvious. The Titanic was an accident, whereas the Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk as a legitimate target of war.
And Wilhelm Gustloff was recognized as a war grave in 1994, which means you can't get close to it within 500 meters.
Nobody talks about this sad loss of life god bless there souls and the families left to bear the pain 😢
This is so sad 9000 deaths in Wilhelm Gustloff and it sinked really fast
Indeed there are reasons why Sherman said that war is hell. And this is a perfect example. Pure and complete hell.
Very impressive. Please make another such touching video about the sinking of the Soviet hospital ship "Armenia" by the Germans.
They won't, they don't want people to cry about soviets
@@StalinKilled100MillionForJoke The Armenia had lost its Hospital Ship rating officially by mid 1941, as it not only actively carried out troop and weaponry transportation, but also was armed with multiple Anti-Aircraft Weapons and military board crews during the time of its sinking. Also, it had a convoy of two military boats and two fighter planes.
The sinking was horrible and unjust for the people on board, especially the civilians. But it wasn't a unreasonable brutality. The Germans were under the legitimate assumption, that the Armenia was carrying combatants and armaments.
The WG was sunken out of spite and hate. It maintained its civilians status and very much operated as a active civilian transportation craft. The Soviets plundered it right afterwards too.
@@BOMERdeath123 Потому что Сталин пытался скрыть гибель Армении..
Uhhh there's no movie about that, you are aware this channel didn't make a live action short film just for a music video...riiight?
@@BOMERdeath123
Read about the ost plan
Real quick the Wilhelm Gustloff never went almost upside down it went on its side like 4:20 and sank bow first.
God save the citizens of East Prussia, those who died on the Wilhelm Gustoff. Never forgotten.
2:49 the music becomes very dramatic. I like that
Absolutely a tragic event
O triste era q nem eram soldados, a maioria eram pessoas tentando fugir do caos da guerra...
Único jeito de sobreviver se você estava perto dos botes alguns botes ficaram flutuando quando ele afundou
from the war that they themselves staged by supporting and electing Hitler to power
Скажите спасибо своему фуреру.
Sinceramente , me gustaron más estos 5 minutos que las horas de Titanic, con muchos menos medios y mucho menos dinero seguro, IMPRESIONANTE!, la historia de este gran buque y su trágico final son los grandes olvidados, descansen en paz sus 9.613 víctimas.
@@diegoam3293 Dejando de lado las películas (respecto a las cuales, si bien Titanic no es perfecta, es mejor, considero). Ambas historias reales fueron tragedias; sin importar que el Gustloff haya sido alemán en medio de la SGM, la inmensa mayoría de sus pasajeros eran civiles, muchos de ellos probablemente ni siquiera apoyaban las políticas de su régimen. Así que creo que su nacionalidad no implica que mereciesen tan cruel destino.
Era un barco bastardo con 9.000 escoria de diferentes sexos y edades a bordo. Toda esta "nación alemana" no merecía nada más que la muerte más cruel, y ahogarse en este barco aún es inexplicable para ellos la misericordia del Señor, porque merecían ser torturados a todos durante mucho tiempo y dolorosamente.
@@carlosadriantinajerovelazc4338 Todos ellos eran partidarios de Hitler, mataron a nuestra gente, y es una pena que entonces, en 1945, los lamentáramos y no los convirtiéramos en esclavos, como querían hacer con nosotros y con nuestro pueblo. ¡Esta muerte fue injustamente fácil en comparación con lo que merecían!
@@ОлегКочережкин ¿Es en serio ese comentario? Jajaja qué lamentable y simplista pensamiento. ¿Los conociste a todos? ¿A los 10,000+ abordo? No conozco ningún pueblo que en la historia, haya tenido al 100% de su población de acuerdo con su régimen. Siempre hay personas que no están de acuerdo. Seguramente había inocentes a bordo. ¿Los niños pequeños deseaban "matar" a "tu" gente? Claro que el régimen nazi hizo cosas terribles, eso no se niega. Pero el hundimiento del Gustloff está injustificado y sin duda fue una tragedia. Los deseos de venganza como retribución a la injusticia solo perpetúan la violencia, es una lástima. Espero que eventualmente logres crecer más allá de esa lógica, en serio, lo deseo positivamente.
@@carlosadriantinajerovelazc4338 Quién de los alemanes apoyó a Hitler allí, y quién no lo apoyó, que Dios lo entienda. Todo lo que puedo hacer es desear que todos los hijos alemanes se reúnan con él lo antes posible.
This is my favorite song.
What is it?
@@christopherlmoo hi-lo(radio edit)
My great grandfather an SS officer drowned trying to save a 2 year old. When I found out I lived in the same town as her I asked about my grandfather and she broke into tears saying that that man was her adopted father and he was a kind man. A man who was deceived by Hitler. He died saving my grandmother. She died on January 30th 2015 at the age of 72. I never knew Grandpa Randolph but I wish I could’ve.
Additionally, my family didn’t even know she was a part of the family until we started doing DNA tests
Добрый человек в СС?- очень смешно, истинный ариец наверное. А мой прадед погиб в плену в 1941 г. в шталаге и виноват в этом наверное такой же "добрый" офицер СС.
@@сергей163 People really can have a change of heart.
I don't know why they turned on the lights U-boat already saw that I think that's why the ship had sunk because the U-Boat saw the lights and attacked the ship like what happened to the Lusitania and the other ships that has been sadly sunk by torpedo r.i.p. for those passengers that passed away on the wilhelm gustloff😢
The Gustloff turned on Navigation Lights to Warn an Incoming set of Mine sweepers on the Same Route which was very Compact and tight so the Captain of the Vessel issued that an Threat of Collision is greater then the Threat of an Torpedo
One of the most deadliest ship sinking tragedies
Вспомните теплоход Армения. Там тоже было 6000-10000 человек.Спаслость 8.И его потопили днём с Ю-87. Хотя с другой стороны он тоже был покрашен по военному и был с оружием и сопровождением. Так же как и Густлов.Так что как не пичально но Око за Око.
Да...
Screw u guys I hope all of your government gets what coming soon because you will pay for what your stupid vodka drunk president is doing to Ukraine btw An Eye for An Eye
@@КонстантинДолматович I don’t speak commie
@@Chase1945 я не коммунист. Я тебе констатирую факты. Запад загнивает. И пока люди из Запада будут смотреть телевизор и слушать своих политиков так и будет
Согласен
Technical detail- what likely would of caused all the lights to come back on again before finally sinking?
Emergency generator kicked in prolly
This was a war crime! 😢😮
Jes
Armenia sinking was also a war crime
This actually wasn’t a war crime believe it or not.
@@wszystkowszyscywszystkowsz8683Finally someone that knows about that sinking.. so tragic
@@Wildcatttttthe more tragic thing about it was that the germans probably even gunned down the lifeboats, or idk i forgot and lifeboats wouldnt even be launched probably so that doesnt make sense
Thats why the woman said nothing can happen to us because theres a war in the city so they get in the ship. There was 3 torpedo's ahead the wilhelm gustloff sink fast because theres 3 holes in the ship.
Um grande crime na guerra....mas tbm com uma serie de erros... lamentável o cara que ordenou esse ataque ainda recebeu uma medalha...e eles sabiam que esse navio levava grande parte de refugiados
I think that all the crew of this submarine had to be put in jail, forever. Atrocity is atrocity, no matter if you won the war or not.
@@ScienceDiscoverer right! People brutally died in these ships and the soviets knew it
it is mournful that the Luftwaffe destroyed a bunch of Soviet ships with refugees and received iron crosses. it is mournful that the people who sank Athenia and Niagara received. iron crosses. They started the war they elected Hitler as leader and they supported the start of the war where many diedJews, French, British, Belgians, Soviet people, and many others, so I wonder why they do not repent of their actions
@@ScienceDiscovererIt’s a pity Dudley Morton wasn’t sent to prison, which he deserved for shooting those fleeing. And about the prison that you said, this is a blatant lie, because after the war he became the commander of a submarine divisionworld or another watered wrapper instead of if you are interested in viewing all sources of information
@@ScienceDiscoverer 3 рейх у нëс жизни миллионов у одно СССР 27
poor childeren 😥
O Wilhelm Gustloff afundou porque naquela noite a névoa era muito densa e a tripulação ligou as luzes de navegação para evitar que outros navios se colidisem com ele
Mas tinha um submarino na area que viu as luzes e pensou que era um navio de tropas alemão e a tripulação do Gustloff desligou as luzes ao ver aquele submarino, mas já era tarde demais
De fato, o navio estava armado e acompanhado por um destróier, o que o tornou um alvo militar. Além disso, os nazistas foram evacuados nele.
:(
The men in the submarine should've been court martial'd for sinking a Passenger Ship.
@@titanusghidorah7964 Eleven days after the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the S-13 sank another transport ship, the General Steuben, with the loss of 3,300 lives.
"Roscoe White"
@@HANKSANDY69420 (;(
Oh my goodness like imagine being inside the ship while those very little air pocket that is very Very, very scary.
About 9,000 died that night so sad
Yes, it was a nice ship, but it was registered as a warship in the state of the German Navy, it was armed, it carried military units and weapons on its last voyage. It was an authorized military target.
Some say up to 9,400 died that night also but still a huge loss of life regardless to all the civilians that lost their lives may they rest in peace but for the thousands of Nazis and Hitler loyalists who were onboard that died I really don't give a damn about
@@martinnebola9586 soo, youre saying the deaths of about 9000 civilians were justified?
Eu acho que se o gustloff tivesse camuflado e as luzes apagadas ele não teria afundado
eu tbm
Happy 82nd Birthday Herr Eric Braeden, survivor of the Wilhelm Gustloff, casualty of the Titanic (playing J J Astor). Remind me NEVER to board a ship with you!
3rd April 2023.
Für immer in unseren Herzen. 🇩🇪
в наших сердцах Маринеско!!!!
This is an incredible piece of history along with other cruise ship disasters. Was this from a film? It's incredibly done. Almost puts Titanic to shame.
Es ist tatsächlich so passiert und hat ungefähr das 5fache an Todesopfern von der Titanic gefordert, wobei man dazu sagen kann das aufgrund der Umstände der Abfahrt selbst die einzige Quelle aus dem Tagebuch eines Offizieres nicht ganz zu glauben ist, weil darin steht das das legedlich die Leute sind die er selbst anbord kommen sehen hat; und es gab eine ganze Menge mehr Leute die an anderen enden anbord gingen und er selbst auch nicht die gesammte Zeit dort war
The flim "Titanic" (1998) was totally rubbish 🚮
@@jagdpanther2224 1997 actually
The music fits with the vidio clip
Вот в Берлине, на самой высокой уцелевшей стене, я с огромной любовью напишу: «Развалинами Рейхстага удовлетворён». (с)
Ура русский
Как же я согласен. Я даже и не мог представить насколько люди на Западе зомбированы. Оказывается, что СОВЕТСКИЕ СОЛДАТЫ - нацисты, а немецкие нацисты - освободители земель. Забывать начинают...
This ship is very underrated
it's also very underwater
The sinking of that ship is FAR worse than Titanic, Lusitania, and so on, yet, it is sadly forgotten. That is cruel.
They were Nazis.
@@jonathanmcnair6064 the majority of them were people scared of the russians, that at the time were gaining territory, known for their brutality against the civilians
@@jonathanmcnair6064 They were regular people who were fleeing the war
@@lallawmzuali6083 They were Nazis and their families who were fleeing the consequences of their actions in the Baltic states. It was a huge loss of life, but these were people who supported an ideology who treated others as subhuman.. so I don't really have any empathy for them in their own demise.
@@jonathanmcnair6064 Yes, ofc there were Nazis and their families there. But most of the people on board and who perished were civilians being evacuated in Operation Hannibal, almost 9.000 of the 10.000 people on board to be exact. It takes maybe 30 seconds to search up this information. Not to mention 5.000 of the casualties were literal children - do you want to tell me they deserved to die for something that was entirely out of their control? Because they were born into a country that did terrible things?
Расплата за те зверства что они творили на нашей земле, за Хатынь , за концлагеря, за Сталинград, за блокаду Питера, за Москву, за Курскую дугу, за Псков, да всего не перечислишь. После войны стало известно количество городов на советской территории было разрушено 1710 городов и посёлков городского типа и более 70 000 сёл и деревень, 32 000 промышленных предприятий, разгромлено 98 000 колхозов, 1876 совхозов. И самое главное ..... 27 000 000 погибших советских людей, а это русские , белорусы, украинцы, татары, чеченцы, удмурты и ещё куча других национальностей.😡😠😥
4:36 how did the lights turn back on should the water not get into some electrical components and the lights fail?
I think that sometimes the light comes back for a while before doing a blackout forever
The lights were shut off manually, but most ships - even back then - have emergency generators that will turn on lights to help evacuations. These can't be turned off unless the emergency generators also get destroyed, which doesn't necessarily happen until the ship is underwater.
MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13. 9,400 people died, making it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history.
Originally constructed as a cruise ship for the Nazi Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude) organization in 1937, Wilhelm Gustloff had been requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine (German navy) in 1939. She served as a hospital ship in 1939 and 1940. She was then assigned as a floating barracks for naval personnel in Gotenhafen before being fitted with anti-aircraft guns and put into service to transport evacuees in 1945.
Se o Navio Estivesse Marcado Como Navio Hospital, Ele Não Teria Afundado, Talvez Seria Desmontando Ou Viraria Um Navio Museu/Hotel.
Na verdade, não. Porque os russos não ligavam pra crimes de guerra, por isso eles afundava navios hospitais, escravisavam, matavam inocentes etc...
ou se o capitão n tivesse acendido as luzes
??? Actually it was a hospital ship during a war with a red cross on it
it was navigation
Ou tomado o msm destino como o navio hospital HMHS Rewa msm marcado como navio hospital ele foi torpedeado
Didn't need the silly song, but great clip.
Око за око, зуб за зуб, как говорится.
Нацистам нет пощады!
Когда другие становятся нацистами и обвиняют других в том, что они нацисты, это величайшая милость, которую можно оказать нацистам.
@@ottosaxo, "Ланкастрия', "Вирония", "Атения", "Иосиф Сталин", "Армения" и прочие пассажирские пароходы, потопленные немцами - немцы безнаказанно топили гражданские суда, наплевав на конвенции и красный крест. Месть была, как со стороны союзников, так со стороны советов.
Правда про "Вильгельм Густлофф" не говорят одно: судно имело культовый статус в Нац. Германии; эвакуация была из одного из самых главных центров подготовки моряков и курсантов военного флота, эвакуировалась городская администрация и пр. структуры, + солдаты, эвакуировавшиеся из котла.
Т. о. это было судно, а корабль, а то есть законная цель.
@@МПС_СССР При всем этом вы не говорите мне ничего нового.
Привет, Восточный Берлин или Комсомольск - или ты всю ночь просидел в Интернете?
@@ottosaxo а ты всё зигуешь...
Мы беспощадно сбили пассажирский южнокорейский лайнер,пилоты которого заблудились( впрочем это не имеет значения)
Alexander Iwanowitsch Marinesko, the commander who shot the Wilhelm Gustloff knowing there were mainly injured and refugees on board, is an offical war hero of the Soviet Union is Russia till this day. In the originally german city Kaliningrad a monument was build for him that still stands today. A law forbids russian historians till today to publish critism of Soviet military acts during ww2.
И абсолютно заслуженно. Слава товарищу Маринеско.
О том, почему на борту военного корабля находились раненные и беженцы - все вопросы к нацистскому преступному руководству.
@@KaljmiusDonetskDPR Yes the Nazi regieme is too blame aswell of course. Nevertheless it's a shame to call a person who intentionally killed thousands of civillians a war hero.
None of that surprises me at all.
Dazzle painted with a defensive armament does not make it a cruise ship , it makes the vessel an instrument of war , regardless of loss if life
Does anyone know the name of this movie and which year it was released ?
I think the film is called “Die Gustloff” released in 2008
@@SaitoTheSmashGame2005
Thank you i appreciate it 🙏
This is why I have the fear of the ocean and ships 😭
Well ships are safer today then they were then and during ww2
@@F0restFigure agreed
This is the iconic song for this ship
You still don’t know about the death of the civilian hospital ship Armenia, sunk by the Nazis near Yalta in the Crimea on November 7, 1941, then about 10,000 civilians died, including children, as well as many wounded Red Army soldiers.
The steamer was sunk by two flights of Yu-87 Shtuk aircraft, the pilots saw the ship jam-packed with children, women and the wounded, but on purpose over and over again they made combat approaches to it, dropping bombs and shooting from cannons. so Gsutav is just part of the punishment that befell the Nazis. This is a legitimate military target, fascist military units and submarine crews were evacuated on it!
It was 5000 not 10000, and the ship had anti-aircraft guns and military escort
@@flip849It is impossible to calculate the exact number of victims, they assume from 7 to 10 thousand, this is according to the lists of evacuees on that day, whose fate is not known. On the deck and on the sides were large red crosses, indicating a medical ship. Anti-aircraft machine guns were installed on it only because the ship, during the evacuation of the wounded, was repeatedly attacked by German pilots, who ignored the sanitary status of the ship. Escort from a pair of boats with two machine guns - it's ridiculous to call an armed convoy.
There is no need to turn history around and praise fascism - the experience of the Second World War showed everything as it is ......
@@SEDUXXEN not being a pro-racist but this is false, nothing but Russian propaganda sites say “10000” people died. Also by your SAME logic, any ship that Carrie’s any military equipment is a legitimate target
So you ok to civilians dead because theyre just german and they was in the military ship
@@yagtabakas3304 Civilians - yes, and it doesn’t matter who they are by nationality ....
Nice job 👍💪
Was this condemned as a war crime after ww2
It was an act of war, so no it wasn't
Yes, it was a nice ship, but it was registered as a warship in the state of the German Navy, it was armed, it carried military units and weapons on its last voyage. It was an authorized military target.
@@martinnebola9586 thats somewhat misleading. Military personnel to a degree yes, they were tasked with crewing the ships for operation Hannibal, which was an effort to evacuate as many German civilians and wounded as possible from East Prussia before the Red Army arrived. While I take it with a grain of salt, the records of the Gustloff's last voyage do not indicate any weapons being carried, as the ship was gutted of any non-essential fittings and cargo to make room for passengers (they even emptied the swimming pools to cram in extra people)
The reason it is not considered a war crime is because the allies claim that because of its designation as a barracks ship and its navy officers on board, that it was a legitimate threat. This was mainly done to cover up the fact that the soviets at the time knew that the Gustloff, Goya, Steuben and other Hannibal ships were tasked purely with the evacuation of civilians, but sunk them anyway. The aforementioned claim was mainly a PR attempt to save face for their future cold war enemy.
No.
Soviet naval command, and commanding officer of S-13 Alexandr Marinesko thinked that transport was used for evacuation of german forces in East Prussia. So they think that german soldiers was onboard Gustloff and Steuben.
Also Gustloff was a legitimate target: 1) Gustloff wasn't hospital ship ( no official declare, no special coliring ) since november 1940.
2)Gustloff was armed ship.
3) Gustloff was colored in military camouflage
4) Military escort ( destroyer Löwe) which is prohibited for hospital ships.
5) At least 1453 passengers was applied to military personnel.
Condemned by who? The Nazi's?
Is the song from evanesence? And which movie is this?
Worsts sinking in history death total worse than titanic
So many lives forgotten even the ship is forgotten
Seriously Sewol Ferry And Costa Concordia And MS Estonia
@@facelessterminator2690
This ship had more than over *9000* deaths bro this ship was the worst maritime disaster in history with titanic being second
Ikr fr :(
@@Serial__DesginationN Really Am Sorry Bro
@@Serial__DesginationN Titanic wasnt even 2nd
What song is this video?
i like this vid
The song fits perfect for the sinking of the wilhelm gustloff. btw what song is this?
Hi-lo Evanescence