The 'Train of Commemoration', pictured in the train station in Rathenowwest of Berlin, is a rolling exhibition, displaying the biographies of children
and youth from all over Europe who were deported by the Nazis
Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company, refused to allow the "Train of Remembrance", which documents deportations by rail during the Second World War, to use the station and instead shunted it to the east of the capital.
Thousands still queued for up to four hours. "These masses demonstrate that they are ready to confront this painful chapter of German history," said Hans Minow, an exhibition spokesman.
The train has been hauled around Germany by a steam locomotive since November, and illustrates how Jews, gipsies and opponents of the Nazis were taken to their deaths.
Deutsche Bahn justified its refusal to allow the use of the main station by saying that steam from the engine could set off smoke alarms, and that it would prove difficult to rearrange train traffic.
Telegraph
3 comments:
Berlin does NOT have ONE "central station".
It would be helpful if this article name the stations involved.
Don't tell us - tell the Telegraph.
The german railway company owes it to the victims of the holocaust to show the world they are sorry that their train tracks were used for the purposes of absolute evil.
Good that so many ordinary german people are paying their respects to the dead, and are resolved to stop the far right, cyclops's nazi friends the npd from getting to power.
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