It also did not have any markings indicating that there were civilians on board. The ship was registered as a war vessel and was painted gray as such. The passengers the ship was carrying included Gestapo personnel, members of the Organisation Todt, and Nazi officials with their families, as well as Baltic civilians. The ship in the book, the "Wilhelm Gustloff," was sunk because it was a warship that just also happened to carry civilians. The author also wrote a novel called "Salt to the Sea" which features a heroine who repatriates to Nazi Germany while fleeing the Red Army. Her books are incredibly ahistorical, often erroneously depicting the Soviets as brutal occupiers more akin to the people they were actually fighting the Nazis. When the Soviets arrived, they began deporting the pro-Nazi elites of these nations. The author fails to mention why the Soviets occupied the Baltics in the first place: because Lithuanian, Estonian, and Latvian nationalists were committing genocide on the Jewish people there without even being directed by the Nazis. The author fails to mention why the Soviets occupied the Baltics in the first place: because Lithuanian, Estonian, and Latvian …more Yes, absolutely it is.
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