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Here is your chance to own a nice and unusual death card for a Reichsbahn man. Portrait showing him wearing his Heer uniform, and he served on the Eastern Front it seemed before being a railroad official. Fell only July 6th of 1944 in France. In excellent condition overall.  This piece is a consignment item and is subject to the terms listed on the website. Guaranteed original.    The Deutsche Reichsbahn , also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway,  German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German  national railway system created after the end of World War I. In August  of 1933 Robert Ley, leader of Reich Labor, demanded that those  administrators working for the German Labor Front be married only to  German individuals. The Deutsche Reichsbahn took the lead in  discriminating against intermarried workers, firing German employees  married to Jews and forbidding intermarried Germans from working there  in the future, starting in November of 1933. The Reichsbahn had an important logistic role in supporting the rapid movement of the  troops of the Wehrmacht. In all the occupied lands the Reichsbahn  endeavoured to incorporate the captured railways into their system. Even  towards the end of the war the Reichsbahn continued to move military  formations. For example, The logistics of the Reichsbahn were crucial to the conduct of Germany’s military offensives. The  preparations for the invasion of Russia saw the greatest troop  deployment by rail in history. Even in preparations for the Battle of  the Bulge (from 16 December 1944), tank formations were transported from  Hungary to the Ardennes by rail.     Free shipping ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD & I don’t charge PayPal fees like some of the other guys!