Berlin, Germany – Supporters of a steam-drawn Holocaust memorial train demonstrated Saturday against what they alleged was hostility from Germany's principal railway company, Deutsche Bahn.
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The evening rally by 600 people was attended by leaders of Germany's Left Party and figures from the Jewish and gypsy communities who have supported the scheme to tour Germany with the train, ending May 8 at the site of the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp.
Deutsche Bahn (DB) has refused to reduce tolls on its tracks or let the train park at its gleaming new main Berlin station, saying it needs all 12 platforms and the locomotive's smoke would set off smoke detectors.
The demonstrators accused the railways system of refusing to own up to its evil past and lit 4,646 tiny candles outside DB's city-centre office to represent children and teenagers sent by the Nazis to concentration camps from Berlin. [DPA]