Abstract

JAUREGUI-LOBERA, Ignacio. Navigation and history of science: the sinking of the Gustloff (The Laws of War). JONNPR [online]. 2020, vol.5, n.5, pp.554-565.  Epub Oct 19, 2020. ISSN 2529-850X.  https://dx.doi.org/10.19230/jonnpr.3524.

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.

Keywords : World War II; Operation Hannibal; KdF Wilhelm Gustloff; Sinking; Drowning; Hypothermia.

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