Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer

The Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer, the French railroads, were making the convoys – the trains transporting Jews from the unoccupied zone and deporting them from France – run on time. The SNCF was paid per victim, per kilometer for this transport by cattle cars; as late as 1944-08 it was still billing for its deportation services. Its contribution to civilized behavior was to clean and disinfect the cars after transport.