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The Breitspurbahn (German pronunciation: [ˈbʁaɪtʃpuːɐ̯baːn], translation: broad-gauge railway) was a railway system planned and partly surveyed by the Nazi government of Germany. Its track gauge – the distance between the two running rails – was to be 3000 mm ( 9 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 8 in ), more than twice that of the 1435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1 ...
The best-known and the most produced German war locomotive, or Kriegslokomotive: DRB Class 52. Kriegslokomotiven (German: for "war locomotives", singular: Kriegslokomotive) or Kriegsloks were locomotives produced in large numbers during the Second World War under Nazi Germany.
General map of deportation routes and camps. Holocaust trains were railway transports run by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and other European railways under the control of Nazi Germany and its allies, for the purpose of forcible deportation of the Jews, as well as other victims of the Holocaust, to the Nazi concentration, forced labour, and extermination camps.
After World War II, Germany (and the DRG) was divided into 4 zones: American, British, French and Soviet. The first three eventually combined to form the Federal Republic of Germany (the West) and the Russian zone became the German Democratic Republic (the East).
Preserved command car of German World War II era armoured train BP-44 from the railway museum in Bratislava. The BP-42/44 armored train was designed explicitly for anti-guerilla warfare. [14] In addition to various anti-partisan and pacification actions, Germans employed armored trains to secure their rail transportation networks. [14]
The Deutsche Reichsbahn (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈʁaɪçsˌbaːn]), also known as the German National Railway, [1] the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, [2] and the German Imperial Railway, [3] [4] was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regional railways of the individual states of the German Empire.
Some Type 477 trains, built before World War II, remained in service until the early 21st century. Many sections of the S-Bahn were closed during the war owing to enemy action. The Nord-Süd-Bahn tunnel was flooded on 2 May 1945 by retreating SS troops during the final Battle of Berlin [citation needed]. The exact number of casualties is not ...
The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52 [note 1] is a German steam locomotive built in large numbers during the Second World War. It was the most produced type of the so-called Kriegslokomotiven or Kriegsloks (war locomotives).