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Ocean liner · 1945

MV Wilhelm Gustloff

Off Łeba, Baltic Sea, Poland

MV Wilhelm Gustloff
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Torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, it is the deadliest single shipwreck in history. It is a protected war grave.

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