Route of Death - Vook
Route of Death – the Last Sacrifice of WWII
Route of Death is the story about three wrecks at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, ghosts from a past that the world has tried very hard to forget. When Wilhelm Gustloff, Steuben and Goya, were torpedoed at the end of World War II, approximately twenty thousand people lost their lives, most of them civilians.
For more than sixty years the story of these disasters has remained virtually untold. But the gigantic wrecks still lying on the seafloor tell the story in shocking detail. Down in the dark waters, in the same sea-lane, lie the ships that reveal the brutality of the war. In Route of Death a search-and-dive expedition will follow in the path of this disaster, trying to throw new light on a forgotten page in history. The divers brings up unique video and remarkable stills.
At war’s end Europe was in ruins and reconstruction started the minute the capitulation documents were signed. Not everything could be cleaned up though. On the deck eighty meters down in the Baltic Sea there are personal belongings left behind, children’s shoes thrown into a basket, shattered wine glasses in what was then a cozy salon, briefcases still bulging with documents. These objects are time capsules, bearing witness to moments of panic, chaos and fear. Wilhelm Gustloff, Steubenand Goya are memorials to a chapter in a history that must not be forgotten.
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