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The 4 people in the car died and 16 people on the train suffered minor injuries. Hours earlier, 2 German troops and a U.S soldier were killed, and another soldier was seriously injured when a train coming from Weiden struck their army truck. 18 people on the train suffered minor injuries. Rail accident of Bad Münder [103] 9 September 2002 0 2
December 24 – United States – Eight people died in a collision at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. [8] December 24 – France – At Montereau on the PLM railway, an express from Paris to Modane collided with a freight train, killing one crew member and injuring seven passengers. [8]
January 13 – Germany – An express train from Berlin to Cologne suddenly encounters fog and the driver passes signals without realizing it. The train crashes into the rear of a Ruhr local standing at Herne, smashing through the fourth-class cars at the rear; 32 people were killed and 57 injured, all on the local. [48]
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.
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.
Two people are killed. [44] April 16 – Japan – At the Sumitomo Mine in Tadakuma, Iizuka, the cable snaps on the cable railway used by workers, and the emergency brakes do not hold. The 9-car train runs away and 52 people are killed, 2 missing, and 28 injured. [45]
Six days later, on 28 December 1940, the Berlin Police recovered Gertrude Siewert the morning after she had been assaulted and thrown from the train by Ogorzow. Suffering from exposure and various life-threatening traumas, she was rushed to hospital and died from her injuries the following day. This scene repeated itself on 5 January 1941, when ...
In the first half of the 19th century, opinions about the emerging railways in Germany varied widely. While business-minded people like Friedrich Harkort and Friedrich List saw in the railway the possibility of stimulating the economy and overcoming the patronization of little states, and were already starting railway construction in the 1820s and early 1830s, others feared the fumes and smoke ...