page_title: Sonderzüge in den Tod
section_title: Discourse on the exhibition
hierarchical_section_title: Sonderzüge in den Tod / Discourse on the exhibition
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Ciała zmarłych w wagonie pociągu z getta warszawskiego w obozie zagłady w Treblince English: A train from Warsaw Ghetto at Treblinka death camp. Corpses of people who died on the journey.
context_page_description: 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. It was shown in France in 2006 and, in a different form, in Germany in 2008. The exhibition was mostly located at railway stations.
context_section_description: The exhibition was preceded by a public argument between Beate and Serge Klarsfeld and the Deutsche Bahn after the company had refused to show the French exhibition at German railway stations. 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. They are not locations for a topic as serious as the Holocaust. There can't be any serious and deep study of such a topic at railway stations. We know our stations and the people who pass through them. I even tend towards saying that it would be counterproductive to realize it. "Shock and go" doesn't work any more."
  Furthermore, he stated that the Deutsche Bahn "has portrayed its history in an exemplary manner compared with other big companies." 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). He claimed that Beate and Serge Klarsfeld had tried to "force the exhibition on the company". After the company had refused to let this happen, it claimed to have read in the press that it had tried to block the examination of the Nazi era. Mehdorn announced the establishment of a touring exhibition which should be located close to railway stations.
  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 .
caption: Corpses of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto who died inside sealed boxcars before reaching Treblinka extermination camp, August 1942
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