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Last broadcast on Sat, 28 Jan 2012, 02:50 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
It was the worst maritime disaster in history.
No one knows exactly how many people died when the German ship went down.
It was overloaded with people trying to escape the advancing Red Army.
Horst Woit was 10 years old when he and his mother survived the tragedy.
Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Should shipwrecks be left alone?
It is 10 years since a deal to protect the world's thousands of shipwrecks, but the UK and several other major maritime powers are yet to ratify it. Should this underwater heritage be protected or is it acceptable to plunder?
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Thu 26 Jan 201223:50
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Fri 27 Jan 201209:50
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Sat 28 Jan 201202:50
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