Editing Wilhelm Gustloff (section)

===Namesakes===

The German cruise ship [[MV Wilhelm Gustloff|MV ''Wilhelm Gustloff'']] was named for Gustloff by the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi regime]]. The ship was sunk by the [[Soviet submarine S-13|Soviet submarine ''S-13'']] on 30 January 1945 (coincidentally the 50th anniversary of her namesake's birth) in the [[Baltic Sea]] while carrying civilian refugees and military personnel fleeing from the advancing [[Red Army]]. About 9,400 people died, the greatest death toll from the sinking of a single vessel in human history. The disaster remains relatively unknown.

In 1933{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} the [[Nazism|Nazi Party]] created the ''Wilhelm-Gustloff-Stiftung'' ("The Wilhelm Gustloff Foundation"), a national corporation funded by properties and wealth confiscated from Jews. It ran the ''Gustloff Werke'' ("Gustloff Factories"), a group of businesses that had been confiscated from their Jewish owners or partners.

The small arms factory [[Simson (company)#1934–48|Berlin Suhler Waffen und Fahrzeugwerke]] was renamed [[Simson (company)#1934–48|Wilhelm Gustloff Werke]] in Gustloff's honour in 1939.