The photos have been prepared and edited by the photographer.

For a short report on the event in Swedish, see:
Coming later

For information on the tragic and heroic story of the greatest marine evacuation and the worst marine disaster in history, see for example this article:
www.feldgrau.com/wilhelmgustloff.html

For two good articles by Mark Weber, visit: www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n2p22_Weber.html and www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p371_Ries.html