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Sascha Howind (Hannover), "A Ship without Classes? The Wilhelm Gustloff and the Social Propaganda of the Third Reich"

Bill Niven (Nottingham), “The Forschungsstelle Ostsee: Who was to Blame for the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff?”

Michael Ennis (Cincinnati), “Victims and Perpetrators: Frank Wisbar’s Nacht fiel ueber Gotenhafen”

Christian Lotz (Leipzig), “Memory of the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and Cap Arcona in West and East Germany”

Karina Berger (Aberystwyth), “‘Und es gab einen Bums, und das Schiff legte sich auf die Seite’: The Portrayal of the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in the Work of Walter Kempowski”

Axel Bangert (Cambridge), “A German Titanic? The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in Contemporary German Film”

Stephen Brockmann (Pittsburgh), “The Politics of German Suffering: Günter Grass’s Crabwalk"

Eric Langenbacher (Washington), “Remnants of Loss: The Resurgence of the Memory of German Suffering and the Wilhelm Gustloff”