The Nazi Ghost Train

In 1944, the Gestapo loaded a train in Brussels with hundreds of prisoners - Resistance workers, political undesirables and other enemies of the Nazi cause - all bound for Germany under sentence of death.

However, thanks to some remarkable acts of courage, the train never reached its destination.

The Belgian Resistance refused to let the train make its journey and successfully thwarted its course. An engineer deliberately threw himself from the train, rendering himself unfit to drive, and tracks were blown up.

These acts of heroism saved more than 1,500 lives.

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