SNCF Resistance aimed at disrupting and fighting the German occupying forces. This allowed SNCF employees to perform many acts of resistance, including the formation of the Résistance-Fer movement in 1943. Nearly 1,700 SNCF railway workers were killed or deported for resisting Nazi orders. 150 Résistance-Fer agents were shot for their acts of resistance, 500 of them were deported. Half of those deported died in concentration camps. German occupying forces in France also requisitioned SNCF to transport nearly 77,000 Jews and other Holocaust victims to Nazi extermination camps. These deportations have been the subject of historical controversy and lawsuits (such as the
SNCF 150.P SNCF 150.P SNCF 150.P were a class of 2-10-0 “Decapod” steam locomotives built as standard locomotives of the newly created Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF) between April 1940 and April 1950 The class were built by: The 115 locomotives were delivered between 16 April 1940 and 15 April 1950. They were, in effect a continuation, with improvements, of a Nord design, Nord 5.1201 to 5.1230 (SNCF 2-150.B.1 to 30); they were ordered due to a shortage locomotives for heavy trains. The first 50 locomotives were requisitioned by Germany for the Deutsche Reichsbahn, some as soon as they