SNCF written that claims that SNCF billed for third-class tickets and continued to seek payment after the war ended were made as part of a legal case brought against SNCF, and did not match with historians' understanding of what happened. Marrus argues that SNCF had no margin of maneuver during the German occupation and that the actions of SNCF employees were not ideologically motivated. According to Serge Klarsfeld, president of the organization Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France, SNCF was forced by German and Vichy authorities to cooperate in providing transport for French Jews to the border and did
SNCF Class 141R SNCF Class 141R The SNCF 141 R is a class of 2-8-2 steam locomotives of the " Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français" (French State Railways). They were used all over the French rail network from 1945–1974. At the end of World War II, there was a shortage of locomotives, and to quickly obtain the large number needed locomotives were ordered from the main American and Canadian locomotive builders under the Lend-Lease Program (and not the Marshall Plan, signed in April 1948, as often written). The design was based on the Green Bay & Western Railroad's successfully customised Mikados,