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Wilhelm Gustloff
NOUN
1. The MV Wilhelm Gustloff German Nazi cruise ship (later converted into a German troop, hospital, and evacuation ship during Operation Hannibal) that was torpedoed 3 times by a Soviet submarine and sunk in the icy Baltic Sea on January 30th, 1945 (during World War II) while carrying over 10,000 refugees (mostly women and children) and military personnel. She was very highly overloaded and over 9,000 people were killed (most of them civilians, including 5,000 children) and only 1,000 survived. It is the worst single maritime disaster in HUMAN HISTORY, SIX TIMES deadlier than the titanic (which killed 1,500 people).
2. Wilhelm Gustloff (30 January 1895 – 4 February 1936) was the founder of the Swiss NSDAP/AO (the Nazi Party organisation for German citizens abroad) in Davos, Switzerland. He remained its leader from 1932 until he was assassinated in 1936 by David Frankfurter, a Croatian Jewish student who opposed the growth of the NSDAP. The Nazi cruise ship, the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, was named after him.
ADJECTIVE
1. When a ship is overloaded with passengers beyond its maximum capacity.
2. When a ship overloaded with passengers sinks with heavy casualties.
1. The MV Wilhelm Gustloff German Nazi cruise ship (later converted into a German troop, hospital, and evacuation ship during Operation Hannibal) that was torpedoed 3 times by a Soviet submarine and sunk in the icy Baltic Sea on January 30th, 1945 (during World War II) while carrying over 10,000 refugees (mostly women and children) and military personnel. She was very highly overloaded and over 9,000 people were killed (most of them civilians, including 5,000 children) and only 1,000 survived. It is the worst single maritime disaster in HUMAN HISTORY, SIX TIMES deadlier than the titanic (which killed 1,500 people).
2. Wilhelm Gustloff (30 January 1895 – 4 February 1936) was the founder of the Swiss NSDAP/AO (the Nazi Party organisation for German citizens abroad) in Davos, Switzerland. He remained its leader from 1932 until he was assassinated in 1936 by David Frankfurter, a Croatian Jewish student who opposed the growth of the NSDAP. The Nazi cruise ship, the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, was named after him.
ADJECTIVE
1. When a ship is overloaded with passengers beyond its maximum capacity.
2. When a ship overloaded with passengers sinks with heavy casualties.
NOUN
(MV Wilhelm Gustloff)
Person A: The Titanic was the worst ship disaster in history.
Person B: No it wasn't. The Gustloff is.
Person A: What's that?
Person B: Only the WORST ship disaster in HUMAN HISTORY! It killed 9,000 people! Thats 6 times worse than the Titanic!
(Wilhelm Gustloff)
Person A: RIP to everyone who died on the MV Wilhelm Gustloff...
Person B: You do realize Hitler named that ship after a Nazi right? He named it after Wilhelm Gustloff.
Person A: That still doesnt make it any less tragic. Innocent people died!
ADJECTIVE
"This ship is so full, its like were on the Gustloff!"
"If this ship sinks its going to be another Gustloff."
(MV Wilhelm Gustloff)
Person A: The Titanic was the worst ship disaster in history.
Person B: No it wasn't. The Gustloff is.
Person A: What's that?
Person B: Only the WORST ship disaster in HUMAN HISTORY! It killed 9,000 people! Thats 6 times worse than the Titanic!
(Wilhelm Gustloff)
Person A: RIP to everyone who died on the MV Wilhelm Gustloff...
Person B: You do realize Hitler named that ship after a Nazi right? He named it after Wilhelm Gustloff.
Person A: That still doesnt make it any less tragic. Innocent people died!
ADJECTIVE
"This ship is so full, its like were on the Gustloff!"
"If this ship sinks its going to be another Gustloff."
Wilhelm Gustloff by Ethan's Dictionary February 18, 2021
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