03 April, 2006
German politicians have asked their country's privatized railway corporation Deutsche Bahn to show the exhibition "11,000 Jewish children sent to the death camps with the Reichsbahn" in its train stations. The Reichsbahn, predecessor of Deutsche Bahn, was largely responsible for the transport of European Jews to the Nazi death camps. In a letter by the leader of the Green Party's parliamentary group, Fritz Kuhn, to Deutsche Bahn chief executive Hartmut Mehdorn, the Greens ask Deutsche Bahn to demonstrate its responsibility and showcase the photo documentation by Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, which comprises pictures of 150 Jewish children rounded up by the German occupiers in France between 1942 and 1944 and deported to Auschwitz. Kuhn says that the then railway company even charged the Nazi regime for the transports. Other politicians such as Transport minister Wolfgang Tiefensee have also demanded the exhibition to be put on show in train stations, but so far, Deutsche Bahn executives have rejected this, referring to a lack of funds.
