This is wrong to allow this engine to sit and rust away. It should have been sent to a mill of somesort to be cut up, melted, and the metal reused for the building of a school or a hospital. That would have been a much more dignified thing to do than just lettting it rust away like this. That would be a way of putting one of Hitler's creations to a good use after it's locomotive days were done.
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I'm surprised it survived the war. Allied fighter-bombers relentlessly hunted down moving trains in the final phases of the war.
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Such a well traveled locomotive. If only she could talk...the historical stories she could tell.
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| Posted by Dennis on July 1, 2013 | |
Not all of the more than 7000 (!) units were fatally hit by bombs... And add to this, after the Nazi-regime had left burnt soil in entire europe, all usable engines were needed. France for examples ordered 17 units after the war to use them for their freights.
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This locomotive does not have an ideology, and is as worthy of preservation as any other surviving steamer.
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