SS Wilhelf Gustolff : Why Is The Greatest Maritime Disaster of ALL TIME Not Common Knowledge?

Germany's finest cruise ship was launched in 1937, and designed to take low-pay German workers on fjord trips to Norway, before it was put into service as a Kreigsmarin support ship throughout World War Two.

In January 1945, the W.G., while transporting German men, women and children from the Eastern Front back home, was torpedoed by a Soviet sub not far from Danzig. Close to ten thousand people perished, making this the single greatest loss of life at sea in human history. And yet...

From the courageous and informative Wilhelm Gustalf museum web site (est. only 2010):