page_title: Norwegian State Railways (1883–1996)
section_title: Reactions to World War Two activities
hierarchical_section_title: Norwegian State Railways (1883–1996) / History / After World War Two / Reactions to World War Two activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Electric locomotive NSB class El 15 at Bjørnfjell, Norway 1970 Norsk bokmål: Malmtogslokomotiv El 15 ved Bjørnfjell på Ofotbanen 1970
context_page_description: The Norwegian State Railways was a state-owned railway company that operated most of the railway network in Norway. The government agency/directorate was created in 1883 to oversee the construction and operation of all state-owned railways in Norway. On 1 December 1996, it was demerged to create the infrastructure operator Norwegian National Rail Administration, the train operator Norwegian State Railways and the Norwegian Railway Inspectorate. The name was taken by the train operator, although the infrastructure operator remained a government agency and is the legal successor.
context_section_description: "The transportation of Jews that were to be deported and the use of POWs on the Nordland Line is a dark chapter of NSB's history ", according to  
  kommunikasjonssjef Åge-Christoffer Lundeby in NSB in 2015.
  Later Bjørn Westlie said about the extermination of Norwegian Jews: "what else than co-responsible was NSB ? For me, NSB's use of POWs and this deportation of Jews must be viewed as one: namely, that NSB thereby became an agency that participated in Hitler's violence against these two groups, who were the nazism's main enemies. The fact that the pertinent NSB leaders received awards after the war, confirms NSB's and others' desire to conceal this".
caption: An "El 15" locomotive hauling ore on the Ofoten Line
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