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
Korean State Railway top-level basketball, volleyball, and football leagues; in football, the top men's club, based in Sinŭiju, won five national championships between 1996 and 2000 in the DPR Korea League, and took part in the 2017 AFC Cup. The Railway Ministry's top ice hockey club, P'yŏngyang Ch'ŏldo, or "P'yŏngch'ŏl" for short, is one of the most successful clubs in the country, having won the national championship at least eleven times since 1997. The Korean State Railway operates over of railway, of which is standard gauge, of broad gauge, and is narrow gauge Of the total, about 80% is in regular use. of