Navigation and history of science: The sinking of the Gustloff (The Laws of War)

Authors

  • Ignacio Jáuregui-Lobera Instituto de Ciencias de la Conducta y Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla. España.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19230/jonnpr.3524

Keywords:

World War II, Operation Hannibal, KdF Wilhelm Gustloff, sinking, drowning, hypothermia

Abstract

At the beginning of 1945, terror invaded the Third Reich when the Red Army began to invade the eastern territories of Prussia, Poland, Courland and Memel. The high command of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine)  were aware that the war was lost and that civilians would be slaughtered by Soviet troops and Slavic natives  in search of revenge. Thus, they decided to allocate all their available ships to the Baltic Sea to evacuate more than 2 million soldiers, wounded, women, children, elderly, collaborators and prisoners in a heroic episode  that would be known as "Operation Hannibal." The ship KdF Wilhelm Gustloff was a tragic witness to what  was happening there.

 

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Published

2020-04-13