In December 1939, on the request of Hans Frank in Berlin, the "Ostbahndirektion" was given financial independence after paying back 10 million Reichsmarks to DRB. The removal of all bomb damage was completed in 1940. The Polish management was either executed in mass shooting actions (see: the 1939 "Intelligenzaktion" and the 1940 German AB-Aktion in Poland) or imprisoned at the Nazi concentration camps. Managerial jobs were staffed with German officials in a wave of some 8,000 instant promotions. The new Eastern Division of DRB acquired of new railway lines and 1,052 km of (mostly industrial) narrow gauge in the annexed areas.