THE SINKING OF THE WILHELM GUSTLOFF

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THE SINKING OF THE WILHELM GUSTLOFF

February 1st, 2016

Awake Goy

by MS King

The biggest unknown disaster on the sea or who cares about 9500 dead germans ! not one word of REMEMBRANCE was mentioned in the ‘western press’ on the 71st anniversary of the sinking of the wilhem gustloff this last 1/30/2016…what does that tell you ?

We have all heard the sad story of the sinking of Titanic in April, 1912 — a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of 1,500 people. Countless books, TV documentaries and even Hollywood films have kept the memory of that fateful night alive for more than 100 years.

‘A Night to Remember’ indeed!

We have all heard the sad story of the sinking of Lusitania in May, 1915 — a World War I tragedy engineered by British Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill and his American counterpart, U.S. Naval Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt. About 1,200 passengers perished in that equally memorable disaster.

above – The Lusitania has not been forgotten either.

What if we told you that neither of these two epic events was the greatest maritime tragedy in maritime history —not even close?! What if we told you of a more recent sinking (1945) which claimed the lives of (are you sitting down?) 10,000 innocent people? That equates to about the total dead of Titanic, plus the total dead of Lusitania, multiplied by a factor of four! It’s true. Why haven’t you heard of this, you ask? Why no documentaries — no movies — no annual remembrances? Well, you see, human lives don’t count if the victims were German civilians during World War II. But they do matter to TomatoBubble.com. So, here is their story.

Wilhelm Gustloff Memorial

Who was Wilhelm Gustloff?

Wilhelm Gustloff (January 30, 1895 – February 4, 1936) was the founder and leader of the Swiss NSDAP / AO(the National Socialist Party organization for German citizens abroad.) He lived in Davos, Switzerland and worked for the Swiss government as a meteorologist.

Gustloff had originally joined the NSDAP in 1929, and put much effort into the distribution of the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a document purporting to reveal the existence of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. On February 4, 1936, a Croatian-Jewish student named David Frankfurter, heeding the worldwide call for Jewish “Holy War” against the German people, knocked on the door of Gustloff’s home. Frankfurter told Mrs. Hedwig Gustloff that he had come there to visit Gustloff.

Hedwig showed the stranger into the study and asked him to wait there while her husband finished his telephone call. When Gustloff entered the study to greet his unexpected guest, Frankfurter drew his pistol and shots Gustloff four times in the head and chest. Screaming hysterically, Hedwig ran to the study and watched her husband die. The cold-blooded killer calmly walked out and turned himself in to local authorities.

three and 1/2 years before World War II had even started, Frankfurter murdered Gustloff in front of Mrs. Gustloff.

Germans and Swiss were horrified by the senseless murder of a good man who had neither harmed nor threatened anyone. Hitler and the some of Germany’s top brass attended the State funeral service. The following year, a luxury ship was launched, named in Gustloff’s honor. Hitler was again present at the ceremony. Helga Gustloff herself christened the massive liner, the M.S. Wilhelm Gustloff.

The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

By January of 1945, Germany’s days are numbered. General Patton wants to take Berlin but Allied Commander Eisenhower won’t allow it. Eisenhower’s deliberate delaying tactics in the Western front allow Stalin’s raping and murdering Soviet hordes to push eastward into Germany.

As the Red Army and the cruel Jewish NKVD units advance, millions of terrified German civilians – a majority of which are women, children and elderly – flee westward by land and sea. On land, the refugees face cruel bombardment and aerial strafing from American, British and Soviet airplanes. The sea-based refugees face a different kind of threat.

On land and by sea, terrified and homeless Germans fled their Allied executioners.

The luxury liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff is packed shoulder-to-shoulder with an estimated 10,000 -12,000 refugees –7 times as many as the Titanic! Soon after leaving its Baltic Sea port, the doomed ship is sighted by Soviet Submarine commander Alexander Marinesko. After tracking his human prey for several hours, the Soviet killer fires three torpedoes into the ship’s port side. In the panic that follows, many passengers are trampled to death as they flee to the decks.

Genocide on the frozen high seas.

The Wilhelm Gustloff sinks in just 45 minutes — coincidentally, on the birthday of its namesake, Wilhelm Gustloff(January 30). German ships arrive quickly and pluck about 1000 survivors from the frigid waters as the cold claims the lives of all the rest. It is the greatest disaster at sea in world history, and not 1 in 1,000 people has ever heard about it!

Now that YOU know the story –share it with others.

above image: Happier days for the fine people of Germany — a 1938 ‘Strength Through Joy’ cruise aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff

The Gustolf was NOT a warship. It was an old cruise ship untill 1939 the that was confiscated by the navy as a hospital ship. In the 30′ this ship was used in the Kraft durch Freude (strength through joy) program of the nation socialists. Germans were travelling all around Europe on pleasant cruises. Hey they were the first Europeans with paid holidays and 40 hour workweeks after all…

Now why don’t you know about this? Not one little Hollywood movie, nothing. Let me think.. O yeah I got it, it it the fault of the germans. It is all their fault. They deserved it. Or was it that they were just ordinary citizens, not the american jet set from Hollywood out on a cruise on a luxury ship? Guilt ridden germans still don’t dare to commemorate their war victims, albeit civilians. germany is still an occupied country with hundreds of thousands american soldiers on its territory.