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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.
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 ...
A post on X claims to show authentic video from World War II of French rail workers sabotaging a German train and derailing it ahead of D-Day landings. Verdict: False Footage is from a French ...
Memorial located in Schipkau, where the train stopped for 2 days.. The Lost Train (German: Verlorener Zug) also known as "The lost Transport" (German: Zug der Verlorenen), was the third of three trains that were intended to transport prisoners from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Theresienstadt during the final phase of World War II as Allied troops approached the camp.
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'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).
The train was armed with 4-6 French 75 mm Schneider field canons, 2 German 105 mm fieldhowitzer, arranged on open platforms, it had 2 armoured cars armed with 4-16 German 7,92 mm Maxim 08/15 machine guns. Part of the train was taken over by Poles during false flag operation of Żeligowski's Mutiny and made into Polish armoured train "Jan ...
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.