Sonderzüge in den Tod

Sonderzüge in den Tod is the title of a touring exhibition commemorating the deportation of hundreds and thousands of people by the former Reichsbahn to the concentration- and extermination camps.

In Germany, the exhibition was opened on 23 January 2008 on the mezzanine floor of the Berlin Potsdamer Platz railway station.

In an interview in November 2006, Hartmut Mehdorn, the chairman of the Deutsche Bahn, justified the refusal of the exhibition: "At railway stations, there is haste and hurry.

He referred to a permanent exhibition in the DB-museum Nuremberg which has 200,000 visitors per year, the participation at the "Entschädigungsfonds für ehemalige Zwangsarbeiter" (a fund which compensates former forced laborers), the education of the company's apprentices and its support of the movie "Der letzte Zug" (The last train).

On 1 December 2006, the German federal minister of transport, Wolfgang Tiefensee, and Mehdorn agreed upon the establishment of a touring exhibition about the deportations to be located at railway stations .

Interior of a covered goods wagon used to transport Jews and other Holocaust victims during World War II , the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
The Holocaust "Güterwagen" boxcars used by Milles and Drancy internment camps in France
Corpses of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto who died inside sealed boxcars before reaching Treblinka extermination camp , August 1942