The speaker at our September meeting was the well-known historian, author and speaker, Roger Moorhouse, who specialises in modern German and mid European history. Roger gave an excellent talk “The worst maritime disaster in history” which told the story of Hitler’s Titanic, the sinking of MV Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945. Very few of us knew about this terrible disaster and it was sobering to hear how a Russian submarine whose captain was probably the worse for drink, torpedoed the civilian ship with the loss of nearly 10,000 lives, mostly women and children.. Roger also gave us a fascinating account of some little-known aspects of the wider history of the Third Reich.
