KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff - KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff The Wilhelm Gustloff was a ship built originally by Blohm and Voss for the cheap cruise market during the early years of the Nazi Reich, named after the assassinated Swiss Nazi Wilhelm Gustloff. The German KdF organization provided cultural activities to German workers, including concerts, cruises and other holidays. The Wilhelm Gustloff was the flagship of the KdF cruise fleet. From its launch in 1937 until 1939 it served its original purpose. From Sep 1939 to Nov 1940, it served as a hospital ship. During the majority of the Second World War, Wilhelm Gustloff was used primarily as a barracks ship for U-boat trainees. Its final voyage was an evacuation of civilians and German soldiers and sailors from Gotenhafen (now and before.
Wilhelm Gustloff - Wilhelm Gustloff Wilhelm Gustloff (January 30, 1895-February 4, 1936) was the German leader of the Swiss Nazi party. He was responsible for the widespread distribution of the anti-Semitic "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Gustloff was shot in 1936 by David Frankfurter, a Jewish student who had been monitoring his activities. See Also: KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff.
Refugee ships - evacuees have been torpedoed and sunk. Some of them are the Cap Arcona, the KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, the Goya and the General von Steuben. Each of these ships was carrying thousands of German soldiers, civilians as well as deportees..
List of disasters - 4 Environmental Disasters 5 Nuclear Disasters 6 War Disasters 7 Air Disasters 8 Railroad Disasters 9 Ship and Ferry Disasters 10 External Links Classical-Era Disasters Vesuvius volcanic eruption, Italy Alexandria earthquake which destroyed the Pharos of Alexandria Rhodes earthquake destroyed the Colossus of Rhodes Modern-Era Disasters Mobile magazine explosion (May 25, 1865) Great Chicago Fire, Chicago, Illinois, (October 8, 1871) Krakatoa, Indonesia, volcanic eruption, (August 26, 1883) Great_Galveston_Hurricane and Flood, Galveston, Texas (September 8, 1900) 1906 San Francisco earthquake, San Francisco, California (April 18, 1906) Halifax explosion, Halifax, Nova Scotia (December 6, 1917) The Boston Molasses Disaster, Boston, Massachusetts (January 15 1919) The Bombay Explosion, Victoria Dock Bombay, India (April 14 1944) Texas City Explosion, Texas City, Texas, (April 16, 1947) 24 hours of Le Mans disaster, France, (June 11, 1955).
Kraft durch Freude - Freude Kraft durch Freude (abbreviated KdF and meaning 'strength through joy'), was a large state-controlled leisure organization in Nazi Germany, a part of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF), the national German labour organization. From 1933 it provided affordable leisure activities such as concerts, day-trips and holidays. Large ships, such as the Wilhelm Gustloff, were built specially for KdF cruises. The KdF also set up production of an affordable car, the KdF-Wagen, later called VW Beetle. A new town was built for the production and for housing the workers, KdF-Stadt, now called Wolfsburg. KdF organized a special saving scheme to allow ordinary workers the luxury of a car. However, due to the start of World War II very little of this was realised and both the factory and the rest of KdF became.
1945 - Soviets occupy Warsaw January 17 - Holocaust: Nazis begin to evacuate from Auschwitz concentration camp January 27 - The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people were murdered. January 28 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road. January 30 - The Wilhelm Gustloff with more 10,000 refugees from Gotenhafen in the Danzig Bay sunk with three torpedos from the Soviet submarine S-13. More 9,300 drowned in the Baltic Sea. January 31 - Eddie Slovik is executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion February 2 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader.
Cap Arcona - Cap Arcona The Cap Arcona (ship) was designated from the "cape Arkona" on the island Rügen. It was a luxury steamer of the Hamburg South America line with 206 m and 27500 GRT space measure, which 1927 ran from the pile and were considered as one of the most beautiful ships of its time. The steamer carried both luxury travelers as well as emigrants, predominantly to South America. Starting from 1940, the Cap Arcona was used by the Kriegsmarine and remained in the Baltic Sea. Starting from at the end of 1944, it was used to the transport of refugees from East Prussia to the west, given up afterwards by the Kriegsmarine. Starting from April 26 1945, the Cap Arcona was loaded with prisoners from the concentration camp (KZ) Neuengamme.
Soviet submarine S-13 - S-13, captained by Aleskandr Marinesko, sunk the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff on January 30, 1945, with three direct hits by torpedo..
RMS Titanic - 1 Construction 2 Maiden voyage 3 Aftermath and consequences 4 The rediscovery of Titanic 5 The 'Titanic Curse' 6 The Titanic in Fiction 7 External Links 8 Other maritime disasters Construction She was built in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was the second ship of the Olympic-class liners of the White Star Line Company built in that shipyard, but was the largest and most prestigious passenger liner of the day. The Titanic was 269 meters (882 1/2 ft) long, 28 meters (92 1/2 ft) wide, and 56 meters (185 ft) tall. Although she enclosed more space and therefore had a larger displacement rating, her hull was exactly the same size as her elder sister Olympic. The ship had 899 crewmen and was built for up to.
Battleship - Dreadnought had ten identical big guns mounted in turrets, giving it far more firepower than anything else afloat. It was so revolutionary that battleships built before it were all classed as "pre-Dreadnought battleships," and those after as "post-Dreadnought battleships," or simply "dreadnoughts." An arms race ensued, especially between Germany and Great Britain. The Royal Navy of Great Britain had ruled the seas for most of the 19th century, but Kaiser Wilhelm set out to change that, in part for strategic reasons, but mainly due to a simple desire for a large navy. The culmination of this race was the Battle of Jutland during World War I, nominally a German victory, but the German Navy's surface fleet remained in port for the rest of the war. After World War I, the Armistice.
SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse - SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was an ocean liner of Norddeutscher Lloyd, notable as the first passenger ship sunk in World War I. She was built by Vulkan of Stettin. Launched on May 4 1897, she made her maiden voyage on September 19 of that year, from Bremerhaven to New York. In November 1897, she set an eastbound crossing record from Sandy Hook to the Needles and four months later she captured the westbound Blue Riband. She held these records until Hapag's Deutschland took the eastbound record in July 1900 and the westbound one in September 1903. She became the first liner to have a commercial wireless telegraphy system when in February 1900 the Marconi Company installed one. Communications were demonstrated with systems.
List of museum ships - Alexander Henry - Kingston, Ontario, icebreaker M314 Alta - Oslo, minesweeper SS American Victory - Tampa, Florida, victory ship Arctic Corsair - Hull, England USS Arizona - Pearl Harbor, Japanese victim Cruiser Aurora - St Petersburg, Russian Revolution player B-413 - Kaliningrad, Russia, submarine Balclutha - San Francisco, California MV Balmoral - Glasgow USS Barry - Washington DC, destroyer USS Batfish - Muskogee, Oklahoma, submarine Bauru, ex USS McAnn - Rio de Janeiro, destroyer escort USS Becuna - Philadelphia, submarine HMS Belfast - London, cruiser Bluenose II - Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, racing schooner ORP Blyskawica - Gdynia, Poland, destroyer USS Bowfin (SS-287) - Pearl Harbor, submarine Britannia - Edinburgh, former royal yacht HMS Bronington - Birkenhead?, minesweeper HR MS Buffel - Rotterdam, 1868 turret ram USS Cairo - Vicksburg, Mississippi, ironclad.
Nazi Germany - capable Red Army offensives. While the Battle of Kursk in July 1943 was not an overwhelming victory for the Soviets it seriously depleted the Germans arsenal of much needed armoured vehicles and Germany was unable to launch another serious offensive in the east. By the time of D-Day invasion on 6 June 1944, German forces were stretched thinly on three fronts. By August, Soviet forces had crossed into eastern Germany. Allied forces crossed the Rhine a month later. In December of 1944 a last ditch effort to strike a blow to the western allies (The Ardennes Offensive) ground to a halt through to lack of fuel and supplies. By the beginning of 1945 the regime was beginning to disintegrate. In April, Hitler committed suicide and Germany finally surrendered in the first.
List of assassinated persons - Mohammad Nanva, (1996), dissident Iranian Kurdish activist. Ali Garmaii, (1996), dissident Iranian Kurdish activist. John Newman, (1994), New South Wales state minister and member for Cabramatta. Fazle Haq, (1991), governor of the Northwest Frontier province, Pakistan, from 1978 to 1985. Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, (1991), director of Treuhandanstalt for former East Germany. Salah Khalaf ("Abu Iyad"), (1991), deputy leader of the PLO killed by Abu Nidal terrorists in Tunis, Tunisia. André Cools, (1991), Belgian politician. Gerald Bull, (1990), Canadian developer of the Martlet cannon, assassinated by Israeli agents. Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, (1990), Colombian presidential candidate. Luis Carlos Galán, (1989), Colombian presidential candidate. Alfred Herrhausen, (1989), Deutsche Bank CEO. Chico Mendes, (1988), Brazilian environmental activist Khalil Wazir ("Abu Jihad"), (1988), military leader of the PLO. Costis Peratikos, (1987), Greek shipowner. Karl Heinz Beckurts,.
January 23 - by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor. 1851 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. 1907 - Charles Curtis from Kansas, becomes the first Native American US Senator. 1920 - The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies. 1937 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders. 1941 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the United States Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. 1943 - World War II: British forces capture Tripoli from.
January 18 - Henry Morgan captures Panama. 1701 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. 1778 - James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands." 1861 - Georgia joins the Confederacy. 1871 - Wilhelm I of Germany becomes the first German Emperor. 1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. 1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. 1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship 1919 - World War I: A peace conference opens in Versailles, France. 1919 - Bentley Motors is founded. 1939 - Louis Armstrong records "Jeepers Creepers." 1943 -.
Johann Nepomuk Mälzel - a hidden human player, but others philosophized about the implications of the mechanization of intelligence. von Kempelen's Chess Turk After von Kempelen's death in 1804, Mälzel acquired the machine from von Kempelen's son, and again went on tour with it. At that time, the hidden chess player was William Lewis. In 1825 the British mathematician Robert Willies wrote a study, detailing how a chess player could hide below the table. In the same year, Mälzel left Europe for New York and exhibited the Turk on the East Coast of the United States, leading again to several newspapers reports. He modified the machine so that it could also play Whist. Already after a few months, several clones of the machine were being exhibited by others. But then two youths in Baltimore oversaw.
July 20 - Province, Cai Be, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personell and 40 civilians (30 of which are children). 1969 - Apollo Program: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first humans to walk on its surface. 1974 - War of July 1974: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus. 1976 - Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars. 1982 - The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding 47 people, and leading to the deaths of 7 horses. 1985 - The main ship wreck site of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha (which sank in 1622) is found 40 miles off the coast of Key West, Florida by treasure hunters who soon begin to raise $400.
Hans Langsdorff - Langsdorff Kapitän zur See Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff was a German naval officer, most famous for his command of the Panzerschiff (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee during the Battle of the River Plate. Langsdorff was born on the island of Rügen in 1894, the eldest son of a family with legal and religious traditions rather than a naval tradition. In 1898 the family moved to Düsseldorf, where they were neighbours of the family of Count (Graf) Maximilian von Spee, who was to become a German naval hero (while losing his entire command) in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914. Influenced by his honoured neighbours, Langsdorff entered the Kiel Naval Academy against his parent's wishes in 1912. During the First World War the then-Lieutenant Langsdorff won his first Iron Cross at.
Heinrich Friedrich Karl, baron von und zum Stein - noted the new sources of national strength which its reforms called forth in France. Meanwhile Prussia, after being at war with France during the years 1792-95, came to terms with it at Basel in April 1795, and remained at peace until 1806, though Austria and South Germany continued the struggle with France for most of that interval. Prussia, however, lost rather than. gained strength at this time; for Frederick William III, who succeeded the weak and sensual Frederick William II in November 1797, was lacking in foresight, judgment and strength of character. He too often allowed public affairs to be warped by the advice of secret and irresponsible counsellors, and persisted in the policy of subservience to France inaugurated by the treaty of Basel. It was under these untoward circumstances that.
