The Wilhelm Gustloff..Nazi Cruise Liner/ Death Ship.... The Wilhelm Gustloff was built to present a more respectable image of the Third Reich. In WW2 she served as a hospital ship for a time and then as an evacuation ship. On January 30, 1945 she left Gotenhafen with 6,050 or possibly up to 10,582 passengers and crew, she was torpedoed by a Russian sub and sank with the greatest loss of life in maritime history. The Wilhelm Gustloff lives in the shadows of her creators and the nationality of her passengers a different voyage of the damned.

The Nazi Swastika is is visible on the funnel