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Refugee ships

In the Baltic Sea during WW II several ships that were loaded with refugees have been torpedoed and sunk. Some of them are the KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff,the Goya and the General von Steuben. Each of these ships was carrying German soldiers as well as refugees.

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