![]() Horses that had pulled the cars that brought them and dogs that had tagged along were abandoned and wandered through the city. ![]() Fleeing before them, refugees were streaming into the German-held Baltic ports, clogging the docks, and mingling with the wounded soldiers left by German ambulance trains. On land, Soviet armies, enraged by earlier German atrocities, were moving into Poland and Prussia from the east, avenging themselves against the military personnel and civilians they met. It was the night of January 30, 1945, and disaster awaited her. ![]() The German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff plowed through the choppy water, her cabins, decks, saloons, and even her drained swimming pool jammed with refugees. Chunks of ice floated on the water, and lookouts shivered at their posts. Snow flurries swirled out of the darkness over the Baltic Sea.
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