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RESOURCES

Finding information and material related to the Wilhelm Gustloff can be difficult (especially outside Germany and/or in the English language).  However, persistence can pay off.  Many of the resources below have provided essential input into the content of this web.


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Heinz Schön, Die Gustloff Katastrophe (in German) 2002
Heinz Sch
ön, SOS Wilhelm Gustloff (in German) 1998
Heinz Schön, Hitlers Traumschiffe  (in German) 2000

Heinz Schön, Flucht über die Ostsee 1944/45 im Bild (in German) 1996
Heinz Schön, Die KdF-Schiffe und ihr Schicksal  (in German) 1987
Günter Grass, Crabwalk,  2002  (“docu-drama” A.K.A. Im Krebsgang)

                   
Click here for an interesting factoid about Crabwalk
Dobson, Miller & Payne, The Cruelest Night, 1979  
OOP*
A.V. Sellwood, The Damned Don’t Drown,  1973  
OOP*
Blohm & Voss, 125 Years – Blohm & Voss  2002
Shelley Baranowski, Strength Through Joy  2004
Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945  2003
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas  A Terrible Revenge  1994
Emil Ludwig, The Davos Murder (Der Mord in Davos) 1936
Peter Weise, Hürdenlauf; Erinnerungen eines Findlings (in German) 2006
A.A. Hoehling, Great Ship Disasters,  1971 OOP
David Williams, Wartime Disasters at Sea  1997
Felix & Miyoko Imonti, Violent Justice  1994
Michael Bar-Zohar, The Avengers  1967
Philip Dawson, Cruise Ships  2000
William H. Miller, German Ocean Liners of the 20th Century  1989
William H. Miller, Ocean Liners  1990
Clas Broder Hansen, Passenger Liners from Germany 1816-1990  1991
Thomas E. Bonsall, Great Shipwrecks of the 20th Century  1988
Keith Eastlake, Sea Disasters  1999
Erik Durschmied, Unsung Heroes  2003
J.R. Angolia & D. Littlejohn, Labor Organizations of the Reich  1999
Klaus H. Bollmann, KdF - Ein Zeitbild (in German) 2002
Scott-Clark & Levy, Amber Room 2004
Gertrud Mackprang Baer, In The Shadow of Silence 2002

Commentary, I Kill a Nazi Gauleiter David Frankfurter Feb. 1950
Soviet Military Review, The Führer's Personal Enemy O. Baranov May 1969
Sea Breezes, The "Kraft durch Freude" Cruise Ships: Part 1
                                                     
Williams and De Kerbrech September 1980
Sea Breezes, The "Kraft durch Freude" Cruise Ships: Part 2
                                                     
Williams and De Kerbrech October 1980
Sea Breezes, Tragedy of the "Wilhelm Gustloff" Paul Vollrath April 1981
Sea Classics, Wilhelm Gustloff: The Worst Sea Tragedy in History
                               
                          Ed Schnepf Aug/Sept. 1985
Sea Classics, Hitler's Death Ships  Irwin J. Kappes August 2000

Newsweek, The German Titanic   Nagorski/Theil March 2002
Der Spiegel, Die Deutsche Titanic  (Cover Story in German) Feb. 4, 2002
Der Landser, Tragödie in der Ostsee  (in German)  Nr. 614  April 1984
SOS Schicksale Deutscher Schiffe, Katastrophe bei Nacht (in German)
                                                                Otto Mielke Nr. 23 1953
Battle Cry
, 6,000 Victims  B.W. Von Block July 1958
      (ed. note: poorly written & terrible with facts - almost purely fiction)

TIME Magazine, Jew Kills Nazi   February 17, 1936
TIME Magazine, New Martyr   February 24, 1936
TIME Magazine, Saint v. Jew   December 21, 1936
LIFE Magazine, Germans from England - "Ja"   May 2, 1938
The Illustrated London News, The German Plebiscite  April 16, 1938
Newsweek, Ja!  (see 'Voters') April 18, 1938

Note: for more - check out period publications from the 'Gallery' section

*Unfortunately, two key books in English dealing extensively with the Gustloff tragedy are out-of-print (OOP) and will have to be acquired through used book sources.


WEB Note that wilhelmgustloff.com is not responsible for the content of these external links:

www.maritimequest.com

www.lostliners.de/schiffe/w/wilhelm_gustloff/index.htm

www.feldgrau.com/wilhelmgustloff.html

www.deepimage.co.uk/wrecks/wilhelm-gustoff/gustloff_main.htm

www.mboring.com/wilhelm-gustloff/index.html  

www.wilhelmgustloff.de

www.compunews.com/gus/menu.htm

www.click2disasters.com/gustloff/wilhelm_gustloff_ch1.htm

members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/maritime-1b.html

www.cybercreek.com/cybercity/WWIIps/gust.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KdF_Ship_Wilhelm_Gustloff

www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/wilhelmgustloff.aspx

www.greatoceanliners.net/wilhelmgustloff.html 

www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/24/0,1872,1020824,00.html  

alsh.de/alsh/themen/archaeologie20jh/wg/wg1.php

www.wiesenthal.com

www.yadvashem.org

www.blohmvoss.com

www.hamburg-sued.com

www.bundesarchiv.de

www3.uakron.edu/history/baranowski

www.shipwreckcentral.com/teachMod9.htm

www.radiobremen.de/nordwestradio/feature/gustloff/ 

www.german-navy.de

www.uboat.net

www.iantdexpeditions.com/wg/it/index.htm

 


VIDEO

Discovery Channel  Unsolved History – Wilhelm Gustloff  2003

History Channel  Killer Submarine: The Sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff and General Von Steuben 1999

Eco-Nova/The Sea Hunters (Season II)  The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff  2004

Partisan Pictures/National Geographic Ghosts of the Baltic Sea  2006
www.partisanpictures.com/balticghosts  

Polar Film  Triumph und Tragödie der Wilhelm Gustloff  2003 (in German only)

Universum Film - Guido Knopp  Die große Flucht 2004 (in German only)


MOVIES

Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen 1959 (in German)
Directed by Frank Wisbar

Konfrontation (Assassination in Davos)  1975  (in Swiss German)
Directed by Rolf Lyssy


VARIOUS

Gustloff-Archiv (managed by Heinz Schön)
Auf dem Sepp 19
32107
Bad Salzuflen
Deutschland -
Germany

Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv  (Federal Records Office - Military Archive)
Postfach, 79024 Freiburg
Wiesentalstrasse 10
79115 Freiburg
Deutschland -
Germany


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