KdF DAF cruise liner Wilhelm Gustloff travel booklet 1939

Cruise liner Wilhelm Gistloff booklet to use on board for a journey by the DAf KdF April-May 1939 to Norway. With information about the ship, the Elbe and Norway. 64 pages, 15x10cm.

Constructed as a cruise ship for the Nazi Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) organisation in 1937, the Wilhelm Gustloff had been requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine in 1939. She served as a hospital ship in 1939 and 1940. She was then assigned as a floating barracks for naval personnel in Gdynia before being put into service to transport evacuees in 1945 and was sunk on 30.1.45 by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilians, officials and military personnel from Gdynia (Gotenhafen) as the Red Army advanced.