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The Wilhelm Gustloff holds the infamous record for the worst loss of life in maritime history. When she was sunk on January 30th, 1945, 9,343 men, women, and children slid under the waves of the icy Baltic Sea when the Soviet submarine S-13 fired three torpedoes into her port side sinking her in just over an hour. But what was life like on a passenger liner of the Third Reich? For the first time ever, the Wilhelm Gustloff Museum opened up its archives to publish a first hand account of what it was like to sail on the maiden voyage of the KdF flagship in 1938. The highlight is an 18 page journal written onboard by passenger Elisabeth Dietrich printed in both English and German. The book also includes original letters, newspaper articles, and daily agendas and menus for the voyage along with photographs of passengers onboard and the original tickets used for the trip.
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The Wilhelm Gustloff Museum has been dedicated to sharing primary sources and physical artifacts left behind by the Gustloff and her sister ship the Robert Ley. Since 2010, this vast collection has been available to view online at wilhelmgustloffmuseum.com. Consisting of 36 pages, 38 photo albums, over 3,200 photographs, 277 speisekarten, and over 200 artifacts, it is the largest public collection of the Wilhelm Gustloff and Robert Ley in the world.
About the Author:
Edward Petruskevich has been a historian on the Wilhelm Gustloff since 2007 and the curator of the Wilhelm Gustloff Museum collection since its inception in 2010. His publishing of The M.S. Wilhelm Gustloff Maiden Voyage is the first in a series of books chronicling the history of the Wilhelm Gustloff from her construction in 1936 to her sinking in 1945. Edward has already collaboratively worked with authors Russ Willoughby on his book The KdF Fleet in Historic Photographs (2011), Cathryn Prince on her novel Death in the Baltic (2013) and Ruta Septys on her novel Salt to the Sea in 2015. His collection artifacts have been used in books and magazines in 16 countries, as well as in the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology's exhibit "Organization Todt and Forced Labour in Norway during World War II" in Oslo, 2015/2016. A native of Pennsylvania, he currently resides with his family in Norfolk, Virginia.
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- PublisherBlurb
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1364464322
- ISBN 13 9781364464325
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages108
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