Although ships like Titanic, Lusitania, etc are better known, I believe the single worst loss of life at sea was a German ocean liner near the end of world war II. Does anyone know the name of this vessel, and where it occurred?

"The sinking of the Wilhem Gustloff ranks as probably the largest loss of life in a single sinking in maritime history." See: Wilhelm Gustloff (ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Gustloff_(ship))

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Memory, Down with the Ship -- In These Times
The worst maritime disaster in world history was the subject of a 1959 German film called Night Fell Over Gotenhafen. “Banned in the East,” Grass explains
www.inthesetimes.com/article/94/ - 37k --the link would not open for me.

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The name of the ship was the Wilhelm Gustloff. It was sunk by the Russians in 1945 in the Baltic Sea. For more information, see the Wikipedia article here:

Wilhelm Gustloff (ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Gustloff_(ship))

:-( aww too late