The Sinking of the "Wilhelm Gustloff"

On 30th January 1945 the biggest ship desaster of history happened in the Baltic Sea. Soviet submarine S-13 torpedoed the "Wilhelm Gustloff" carrying more than 12 000 people - mostly refugees trying to flee from the Soviet Red Army which had already surrounded the then still German provcince of East Prussia. More than 9 000 people were killed - at least six times more than during the "Titanic"-tragedy of 1912. The poem though has definitely no intention to compare the two desasters - one occurred in peacetime the other in wartime. But while the case of the "Titanic" is known to almost anybody the fate of the "Wilhelm Gustloff" is still widely unknown.