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BERLIN, Oct 27, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- The head of Germany's state-owned railroad has blocked plans for a major Holocaust exhibition setting up a collision course with the Merkel government.
The exhibition, "11,000 Jewish children -- with the Reichsbahn to death," documents the way the Nazis used trains to send thousands of Jewish children to the gas chambers, the London Independent said.
The plan was to mount the exhibit at railway stations across Germany next year to coincide with the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. It already has played at railway stations in France but it drew rejection in Germany.
German Transport Minister Wolfgang Tefensee said the exhibition had to be shown in railway stations.
But Hartmut Mehdorn, chief executive of Deutsche Bahn, successor to the Reichsbahn rail company, said a museum would be a more fitting location because "The subject is far too serious for people to engage in while munching a sandwich and rushing to catch a train."
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