Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff - a podcast by BBC World Service

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Horst Woit was just 10 years old when he and his mother boarded a ship in the hope of escaping Russian forces towards the end of World War II.

He recalls the night that ship - the Wilhelm Gustloff - went down with huge loss of life.

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