Wilhelm Gustloff Real Time Sinking 4k
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- The Sinking of The Wilhelm Gustloff occurred on January 30th, 1945 near the end of WW2. Approximately 10,000 German civilians and military personnel were evacuating Poland. The ship ultimately took thousands of lives with her in just under an hour. Making her the deadliest ship sinking in history.
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The drunk captain of the submarine which sank Wilhelm Gustloff should go to hell, the deepest pits of hell, the boiler room of hell.
No replies, huh?
@isaiahmiguelanimations bruh just watch the video and enjoy. You're sounding like a crazy ex lol
Say that again?
Eric Braeden, who played J. Jacob Astor IV in Titanic (1997) and plays Victor Newman in "The Young and the Restless" survived the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff.
It's prophetic I tell ya......FATE!!
How old was he when he survived the Gustloff?
@@KeepCalmContemplateYourChoices 3 and a half years old.
😯😯😯😯
@@KeepCalmContemplateYourChoices almost four years old. He mentioned that he was scared to death during the flooding scenes.
This literally makes me so emotional seeing this. My grandfather survived the sinking as a kid. His mother and his four little siblings died. His whole family was wiped out during the war. May mankind and the people of Europe never forget how senseless and cruel war is.
@x X……..
Maybe you shouldn’t talk to survivors (or people who know survivors) of ship tragedies like that, don’t ya think?
The Soviets were cruel, I’d say just as bad as the Germans during the war.
Wow. Sorry for your loss.
@x X you know that despite Germany invading Poland that England fired the first shot at hitler right?
Since bonds were invented 700 years ago, war is a business. War zone is a colliseum.
After 1929 crash, Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) implemented New Deal to save people from extreme poverty and Glass Steagall law to prevent a new crash. Some rich industrialists and bankers did not like to have sacrificies to save Americans. So they found the historical villain and supported him. The business model was simple, lend money to his regime and use the money to hire the companies of the rich industrialist which would hire German citizens to build weapons. Then use these weapons to invade nation, loot them and repay using the loot and slave labor. The politician minion faced justice, but the rich sponsors of WWII colliseum who got richer, went unpunished.
Nowadays it is the same, but today we do not have war between nations, but war between elites. And none of the elites care about well being of you or me. Politicians are just puppets of their sponsors again. This is why I will reject any request to hate those who are hated by elites. It would be solved if politicians were brave, but many are just opportunists and sellouts, candidates appointed by rich people so we go and vote for them..
The sad part is since this was a "bad guys" ship no one knows about this. RIP to all who died during the sinking
Because of the Cold War, people don't know about the Soviet hospital ship Armenia that was torpedoed by the Germans while evacuating Sevastopol with well over 5,000 people onboard. 8 survived. Cold War politics meant most of what happened on the Eastern Front isn't well know because they didn't want people to sympathise with the Communists.
Amazing how politics comes first. Same way the majority of refugees drowning in the English Channel goes unreported.
@@DomWeasel yes but 9000 - 11000 died on here
@@mexicanofr7762 Good.
@@MrLuumpy how was that good you coward
@@MrLuumpy You’ve got to be kidding.
What an hour of horror. So many people, the darkness, the water, the cold temperatures.
Pretty darn sad what happened to all those people and the ship, they should make a movie about this tragic event
They have and it’s actually on TH-cam for free! It’s called “die gustloff”
@@Beastlyxxnorris I've seen that one, but it is a crappy made movie, I WANT MORE LIKE a big budget movie about it.
Worse things happend to millions of people who died in concentration camps as a result of the politics supported by the likes of people on this ship.
Hollywood Juse are unconcerned...
@@TheMixrs They were civilians! What kind of remark is that?
For some reason I've usually had an idea of this as a relatively rapid sinking - but it really wasn't. Many people who got trapped below would have been stuck, alive, for quite a considerable time before their part of the ship submerged; for many, it would not have been quick.
People were just dramatic at that time and scardy cats I mean many people died cause they were not chill and if everyone was chill more would have survived
@@YourlocalNeighborhoodKid easy for you to say, i must admit.
@@YourlocalNeighborhoodKid uh I highly doubt someone would choose to remain trapped belowdecks into a sinking ship rather than escape just to be dramatic.
It would have been pitch dark below deck when the lose ship lost power and many exit stairways were bottlenecked. They were trapped and just waiting to die.
If uve based ur info on the dramatization of this one, and how many people describe it, one would come to the conclusion that it sank relatively quickly. Unfortunately, her designers made her a decently strong vessel to survive that long after 3 strikes of torpedoes, with the side issues of overcrowding and ice on the survival material being an issue
@@YourlocalNeighborhoodKid Do you also believe that happened on the Titanic, Lusitania and Empress of Ireland just because they were dramatic? Cause that’s not true. I guess I have to spell it out for you. They were trapped! They were either in total darkness climbing up unfamiliar staircases and walking down unfamiliar hallways, or they were just lost because of how big and how much of a maze the Titanic was. According to my math out of the 1,500 people that died on the Titanic, ~1,170 were trapped below decks during the final 20 minutes of the sinking.
13:06 "What are you doing, Step-tember?"
Give respect to his computer that it literally rendered all of this.
I never knew they did this. This ship is overshadowed by the Titanic yet this one had WAY more deaths in comparison!
Because it was the Germans….during a questionable time in their history….so not many people felt sorry
@@alisonmcgrory2037 Which is so sad.
@@alisonmcgrory2037 more like their deaths are included in the deaths caused by WW2
@@alisonmcgrory2037Most lives lost were innocent civilians trying to escape the Vengeful Russian red army, but sadly died... Most who did survive were bad people. 4 captains aboard, all 4 would survive.
Historians forgive communists for a lot of their actions.
Those have to be the 3 most effective torpedo strikes ever. First you kill all the crewmen, then you kill all the nurses who could've aided the wounded, and finally you destroy the engines, electricity and any hope of communicating outwards.
And all by pure dumb luck. 🤷
Titanic had a lot of time, but not enough boats.
Lusitania had a lot of boats, but not enough time.
The gustloff did not have enough time or enough boats.
50 minutes are enough to make a ship empty
@@MrPro-kk1hh not if you don’t have enough lifeboats, a crowd of panicking passengers, and the ship is tipped to the point where it’s impossible to launch one side of the lifeboats
@@BMAN-eb4jk Wilhelm gustloff had enough lifeboats.but the problem was that the ship was overcrowded and beyond to her capacity. Just imagine how 10000 passengers stay in an ocean liner?
@@MrPro-kk1hh Thats what I mean that there were not enough lifeboats. there is no way they could have gotten the shop empty in time.
my toxic trait is believing that I would easily survived any boat accidents
Same. I’m built different 😊
Yeah like the Empress of Ireland being stuck in your cabin in the middle of the night. If lights go out inside a ship there is total darkness. You can’t see anything. Lights go out in minutes and than the ship falls to its side. More than 1.000 people trapped inside the ship. It sank in less than 14min. Good Luck. Ure dead af
I really appreciate your content. I know it's rather morbid, but large ships sinking has always fascinated me, even as a child, for a number of reasons. This one is especially dark to think about because of the immense loss of life, but it really needs more content made about it so that more people will learn it happened. It's outright bizarre that the single worst maritime loss of life in history is largely unknown and has been so little discussed or investigated.
just watched the entire titanic sinking. it was still so well put together, but ur animation skills have improved immensely! u definitely deserved a subscription from me !(:
Bro me tooo
You should watch the animation about the sinking of the SS Arctic. It is so terrible that makes Titanic look like a walk in the park. Not only people died in a horrible way, but also people did horrendous things to other people. Normally women and children would survive. Not this time.
May those unnecessary lives lost rest in peace.
Well done, my friendy. I’m loving the shots!
Shots? All I’m seeing is a black screen
It’s sad that the deadliest ship disaster is almost forgotten because of titanic
Not because of Titanic, but because the victims of this sinking (being Germans during WWII) are seen as getting what they deserved.
she was only capable of 15 knots, her slow speed+the navigation lights gave her location away, these factors made her an easy target
The video: The 2nd explosion hit the swimming pool
Me:ok.
Also the video: the pool has been converted and hoised 357 nurses.
Me: O SHI-
When I watch the film "Die Gustloff" I thought the sinking is accurate but when I watch this I am surprised to see it is not like the film thanks for doing a real time sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff :)
what part of the film is inaccurate?
@@thelostredcoat4844 the storm
The boat being sideways in the water is what makes me anxious. I couldn’t imagine!
Somehow this feels eerily similar to the sinking of the Lusitania. Not to mention that it happened in conditions similar to, if not worse than those seen when the Titanic sank.
Finally someone who made Wilhelm gustloff real Time sinking
It's a bit dark to see. Especially on phones. But from what I can see, the accuracy and the animations are top notch. Good job. 👍👍👍
To be fair, being dark might be the point. It's when the ship sunk (unless I'm mistaken, and it's just an aesthetic choice).
BTW Great Animation! Enjoyed watching it! I even got my mom to watch this, she's very impressed with the animation as well! great job as always T.A!
For this time of the increasing port list, many others thought it was going to finally capsize, and it did. It listed for much longer and then capsized after that.
Titanic: I have Lifeboats
Wihelm Gustloff: NO LIFEBOATS?
Hypnotic animation of the sinking, the frigid Baltic appeared so peaceful. Superimposing the thousands of terrified passengers is a challenge when the rhythm of the waves can be heard so clearly. From an engineering pov it seemed exacting, the funnel holding fast when parallel to the water a testament to German shipbuilding.
I read the later soviet destruction prevented a forensic examination of the wreck.
In most of these "real time sinking" reconstructions, the ship somehow manages to maintain electrical power until she becomes part of Davy Jones' fleet. This is the first one I've seen where the ship loses main power and it's depicted accurately while she's sinking.
those torpedo strikes though, can't get better than a direct hit to the engine room.
@@MustertheBrohirrim Yeah you can. A direct hit to the magazine. That's what caused the Arizona to sink. And that what probably caused the Lusitania to sink.
@@AF-nc2fc oh ya the magazine
@@AF-nc2fcgood luck finding a magazine on the gustloff . in terms of passenger/cruising vessels a hit to the engine room is the most deadly
Pretty sure the Atlantic lost all power when she tore out her keel
That sinking, while nowhere near comparable to the Gustloff in terms of human life lost, is to me just as tragic of a story
For everyone complaining that it's too dark just watch it in the dark. It should be better. I personally love it because it's like real life.
I have fallen asleep on deck of a catamaran to the waves so there is some haunting factor here in something that usually relaxes me. This looks fantastic and informative. And also terrifying.👏👏👏
Poor 9,000 people and 5,000 children
That image at 25:57 surprised me, Otherwise, I'm halfway through right now, This animation is amazing
WTF?! How did I just now notice this?!
no matter what even if this was during wartime, the sinking of the wilhelm Gustloff will always be a warcrime and none of the victims deserved such a tragic fate RIP
I'm sorry, but it is *categorically* NOT a war crime because of the circumstances and the context therein:
The ship was NOT registered as a hospital ship (or anything of the sort) and as a matter of fact, it still had _anti-aircraft guns_ on board the vessel. The Russians had no way of knowing that the ship contained German refugees/civilians alongside German military personal; as far as they were concerned, it was a German ship with weaponry on board, maneuvering through territory in war time at night, up to god knows what (as far as the Russians were concerned). The captain of the ship also unwittingly drew a target on themselves by putting on the red and green lights in order to avoid collisions.
Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely tragic, but at he same time, it was just a horrid, unfortunate consequence of war.
If it had been marked or registered as a hospital ship (or similar), then yes it would absolutely be a war crime, but as is? No. Just because civilians or innocents happen to die, doesn't ALONE make an incident a war crime.
@@donnydogpiss4533 no. I’m sorry that’s just not how it works. It was the Russians who were doing “god only knows what” and the germans who were fleeing from them. It’s extremely well known the Russians committed just as many war crimes as Germany did
@@informationoverload2487 That is how it works though. The ship wasn't marked as a civilian or medic ship, from the outside it looked like a military ship.
The loss of life is horrific, but it wasn't a war crime.
@@liaevans4483 the ship wasn’t armed to fight against military ships. It had escorts. It was obvious that it was a transport ship and not a military ship. Even without the markings. It’s still a war crime. The ship hadn’t done anything to indicate it was a warship or military vessel.
@@informationoverload2487 Well... She was painted Naval Grey and wore a swastika on her funnel. In wartime that signals military affiliation to Germany. I get that the haste of the evacuation makes repainting her before voyage impossible, but how could you make that distinction through the periscope of a submarine at night? Its a tragedy for sure though
Yes! Finally!
The black water and the sky full of stars... And the song of waves...
Rest in peace. Biggest maritime disaster in history
That doesn’t get talked about
it is not
@@paraxone it is
@@williamacheson3569 no mercy for nazis
@@paraxone WW1 didn't harbour Nazis or Nazism. You are a fool
The unused lifeboats. I felt that a lot
The increased listing of the ship seemed like a perfect opportunity to launch some more.
Only 3 of 373 nurses in the pool area nursing quarters that was hit by the torpedo survived the blast.
Such a cool animation of a sad tragedy!
Amazing! You did a great job on the animation. I really wished you could have added the rough seas and the cold elements at the time of the sinking.
Wilhelm Gustloff having multiple sonar escorts, torpedo escorts, a sister ship, 28 life boats, anti aircraft guns, a functioning hospital area, etc....
-18 degrees Celsius:
Because for this time, the list of this German cruise ship once more turned into a capsize when it was completely on its port side. Which makes it from listing to at once capsizing.
Amazing work - kind of knew it was coming but didn't expect it this weekend. Nice.
@TitanicAnimations fantastic job on the sinking animations i loved the entire thing
Very nice I love the animation keep it up :D
The fact that the crew made an effort to save people is even more heartbreaking due to the fact that the Germans were looked at as heartless
@JohnHuang-mc1wz agreed
Nice video with nice compiled research, although the video's quite dark and at 2:26 I doubt that they knew how many nurses survived the blast (I'm assuming that it's more of a guess or from imperfect first hand accounts of those having to fight for their lives within that quickly sinking ship to have remembered such a small thing), it would be more believable that only three nurses survived the sinking.
Maybe thats the same thing and this is how they knew it
Gotta see this right now!
For a ship that was hit by 3-4 torpedoes, and had all power and methods of damage control crippled she took a long time to sink considering everything
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People are complaining about dark screens... if you have a phone or tablet with an OLED screen, problem solved. Just finished watching. On a regular LCD, which is side/backlit, it's not watchable, the backlighting wipes it out. With OLED, it's beautiful. 👍
Wilhelm: We have to save those people, Prussia is not safe anymore.
Lusitania: Do you want to play hide and seek ~~~ ?
It's terrible to know what happend that night to about 5000 civilian's
In the fog of war, there’s little morality
Yeah, and that the Gustloff mainly sank because of negligence amongst her 4 Captains.
5000? There were at least 8000 civilians aboard
@@leDespicable not what they'v seen
@TheNewfieDogGuy yea, 2 wanted to turn on nav lights 2 dont. One turned them on and that gave s bot ( soviet sub) to localizate gustloff
A Beautiful 🛳 Ship!
Originally me- I can’t see anything it’s so dark, turns up the light on my phone ohhh so much better
Germany shouldn't have shoved thousands of civilians onto a military target. Tragic but not a war crime.
Just imagine that horror
I am pretty sure she was still painted a wartime grey at the time of her sinking also she was armed with anti aircrafts guns
FINALLY!
Hi Phillip, sorry I keep missing the streams lately, just thought I'd message you to wish you well and hope all is ok, hope your family are well also, take care, and hopefully catch you soon :-)
WELL DONE! BRAVO!
Thank you for your research and animation!
Over 9,000 people die in the sinking family lost friends gone rip all the people.
You should also do a real time sinking of the M/S Estonia
Respect to his computer. Mine would have exploded
An extremely sad fact about this ship is that 9058 people lost their lives
38:28 The ship is now completely capsized.
To say she was hit by several torpedoes, she lasted a pretty long time.
i wonder how lusitania sank shorter while being bigger and less torpedos?
RIP to the 9400 people who died in the sink
Rip to 9,400 casualties in the sinking of the wilhelm gustloff
52:47
Just as a note: the S in Gustloff would have been a long S (Guſtloff), as the Germans still used medieval Fraktur typeface at the time
And the reason the Soviet U-Boat captain wasn't prosecuted as a war criminal was...
Watching this for the fourth time, I find this fascinating. I haven't seen your version of Titanic, but I'll look into it. I hate what the Russians. The People on the Wilhelm Gustloff were trying to save their lives.
On another note, I would love to see a real time sinking of Andrea Doria
I get more requests for a Doria animation than any other, and I'd love to attempt one. But I don't have the time to model her out to make an animation. If there were one that was good enough quality for 4k I'd purchase it and make an animation but I haven't found one yet. Thanks for watching!
@@TitanicAnimations , No problem and no worries.
The Russians sank another ship a few weeks later with great loss of life also. It was carrying refugees also.
The Goya and the Steuben.
I know.
"Armenia" with 3000-9000 civilians - only 8 survived.
@@dark_messenger, the Armenia was a Russian ship that was sunk by a german He 111. the death toll is estimated at around 5000
the ships sunk during german evacuations of the eastern front that I know of are:
MV Wilhelm Gustloff / estimated at 9300 dead / 1200 survivors
MV Goya / estimated at 6700 dead / 180 survivors
SS General von Steuben / estimated at 4600 dead / 650 survivors
Transportschiff H16 (Moero) / estimated at 3000 dead / 600 survivors
Dampfschiff Andros / estimated at 1000 dead / 1000 survivors
Dampfschiff Karlsruhe / estimated at 1000 dead / 100 survivors
Transporter Neuwerk / estimated at 900 dead / 90 survivors (this one was sunk by a german torpedo-boat after a miscommunication)
U-Boot Begleitschiff Memel / estimated at 600 dead / 300 survivors
Transporter Nordstern / estimated at 500 dead / 90 survivors
Transporte Moltkefels / estimated at 500 dead / 800 survivors
Transporter Bremerhaven / estimated at 400 dead / 2800 survivors
Lazarettschiff Posen / estimated at 300 dead / 400 survivors
Transporter RO 24 / estimated at 10 dead / 530 survivors
All of those may have been nazis, but hey man, sinking a civillian ship (yes i know it had anti-airplane cannons and stuff but i the it would be hard to see that)? Cold.
@@marijamilicevic7212 most of the germans on board the ship were non-combatants. for the Goya and Steuben, many were wounded soldiers, but most people that were moved overall were civilians, mostly children and elderly. it was common practice that parents would put their kids with grandpa on a boat while they themself would attempt to walk or drive back to Germany which was much more dangerous.
Congrats TitanicAnimations. Good job !! It would be nice as well if you could to do the same with SS General von Steuben. 20 minutes long. Thanks
Weather was bad even snowing
Excellent! Over 3 dozen of my mother's "Aryan" side of her family were aboard the Gustloff. None survived. My Auschwitz Survivor mother grieved for my great-grandmother, who had done a lot to help the Jewish side of the family, but for the majority of the rest she had no tears (several had come to her home as soon as she & my grandmother received their deportation orders to Theresienstadt, literally pushing my mum & grandmother out of the way as they put tags on the furniture they wanted, soooo). ANYHOW... one correction - the 373 in the swimming pool were NOT nurses, they were Kriegsmarine Women's Auxiliaries - military personnel. The Gustloff was neither a hospital nor refugee ship - she was carrying U-Boat crews & other military personnel making her a legitimate target. The amazing thing is that Operation Hannibal managed to get over 2 million people out of East Prussia with only a tiny loss of life. That's of no comfort to the women & children who perished aboard the Gustloff, though.
Who came to rescue them from lifeboats?
I love it how my clock is on 19:45
AWESOME!!!!!! Thank you
I disagree that this wasn’t a war crime just because there were soldiers on board. This was a great loss of life 4x that of the Titanic
Great video!,Keep it up! :D
wait didnt the ship have emergancy lights?
yes it did and the public address system also remained operable.
wow amazing animation i loved the video
Wooow ... when you ll do an Andrea Doria real time sinking
I must correct an error. The German people were forced out of their homes in East Prussia which was part of eastern Germany, so they were not forced to the coast of Poland. Please correct this; these were German refugees from the eastern portion of Germany, not Poland.
Video is black most of the way through. Could you please lighten so we can see the progression of the ship sinking. Thank you.
I think that after all the ships Germany has sunk, for example Ceramic, Laconia, Armenia, Lancastria, all which Germany bombed on WWI and WWII. Soviets thought Germany will finally pay for all it has done. Making this the most deadlist ship sinking in the world.
I wonder if it looked like a regular ship, would it still have been sunk.
What's the different between listing and capsizing?
0.05. not to the coast of "Poland", but to the german coast at that time. We hate polish land robbery after the war.
Thx for this I been looking for this In long time
Warum sind hier manche Wörter während der Animation deutsch mich stört es jetzt nicht,denn ich bin Deutscher aber ich wollte mal fragen?
YESS!!
I though that the Gustloff sank in less than 3 minutes...
I was going to feel sorry for the deaths but then i read the context and can´t feel sympathy anymore. Even civilians, the Germans were supportive of the war and their leaders. They killed and commited war crimes during all the WWII and then they expect to not suffer the consecuences after the war?
Great video tho! The sinking was terrifiying but the ship hold itself a lot of time.
You should do a video on Armenia where over 5000 Russian women and children evacuated (notice not Nazis and their followers) and then german pilots were flying over the people who ended up in the water shooting at them. That's what they did to trains with children or evacuated from cities lakes in Petersburg and they're also flying over children like little children like 5-6 years old right above them and shooting them.
So how many torpedoes were fired? 3 or 4?