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3 unusual facts about Wilhelm Gustloff


Wilhelm Gustloff

Assassination in Davos a 1976 Swiss feature film concerning the assassination

Wilhelm Gustloff (January 30, 1895 - February 4, 1936) was the founder of the Swiss NSDAP/AO (the Nazi party organization for German citizens abroad) at Davos.

Crabwalk the assassination of Gustloff is an element of the plot of this 2002 novel, even though its main subject is the sinking of passenger-ship named in his memory.


Soviet submarine S-13

Under the command of Marinesko, then 32, on 30 January 1945, at Stolpe Bank off the Pomeranian coast, S-13 sank the 25,484-ton German liner Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with civilians and military personnel, with three torpedoes.


see also

Alexander Marinesko

He is one of the more prominent characters in the Günter Grass' novel Crabwalk (2002), which describes in detail the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff.