inga did not survive. her father did not survive the war, and she later does find her mother before, they eventually are able to get visas to the west. yes, sir. spent you said it had red cross markings on the ship prior before they made it to a training ship. what markings were honored that my? >> it was painted with the colors, they never repainted it afterwards. any of the ships that were requisition for operation hannibal were pretty much as he is. so they might have been common in the, as i mentioned, they were using some of these military ships to transport surveillance. didn't have much in the way of large ships that could take a lot of people at once. >> in 1945, the germans were not so welcome in the united states. how did they get there? >> that's a good question. many of them were in cans and is you are with them who might've been in west germany. and they applied for visas, and says many of you may know, there were quotas. and so they were able, some are able to get to the states, some end up i

she tells the story when it was finally allowed for she and inga to leave, inga was the oldest sister and helga asked to be in charge of the money and identification papers and her father said, that will be inga's job. she a little older and a little more responsible than you, so, helga put in photographs in her back pocket, which was her father's -- it had a little button to secure it and amazing amazingly these photographs survived the sinking and survived the years afterwards. so, just great to provide me copies of these. this here is a model of the gustloff. the gustloff could comfortably transport just about 1500 persons all together. so that would be passengers and a full compliment, full crew. these are in the days when it was cruising along the mediterranean and scandanavia, and you can see the life boats. there will 22 life boats on the gustloff. and each life boat was designed to 70 people. so as i mentioned further, upwards of thousands people -- ten thousand people on the day it sank and they're crammed into every space imaginable. into the closets, underneath the stairwel

this photograph is inga with her mother milda and her grandmother rosalee. she has the distinction of being one of the youngest survivors on the gustloff that might. so naturally, she doesn't recall. she was about 2-years-old the light of the sinking. but she does remember that when her mother was alive, they often spoke about that day and the time that followed. milda wrote a very long and detailed letter to inga as well explaining why the in the double the speed and what happened during the sinking. inga, who now lives in australia, told me that one of the greatest courage is people laughed at the notion that she had survived the world's maritime disaster and they dismissed the idea that a young mother and her baby girl were aboard the gustloff at all in this picture is horris as atv with his grandparents, who also lived in east prussia. he had a very warm feeling for his early childhood years. he ran third his mother putting him on the train with a sign at around his neck to go meet his grandparents. .. >> it comes in handy for them. this is captain alexa

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