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Deportation to Extermination Camps by Rail in Western and Central Europe – 1942
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M095 Creator: Jasper Lemberg ’21 Data Science By 1942, the European rail system was a dense forest of lines that reached just about everywhere in the continent. Germany was well aware of this and used it as often as possible during World War II, including during the Holocaust. To do this, they…
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The Berlin-Baghdad Railroad 1899-1940
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M092 Creator: Mark Mychajuk ’20 International Relations Designed and largely built by Imperial Germany prior to World War 1, the Berlin-Baghdad Railroad was an act of Imperialism. Germany hoped to gain access to Middle Eastern oil in the Ottoman Empire and new routes of attack on the colonial possessions of Britain and…