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Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit. (Reuters) Last update - 10:18 13/04/2008 Holocaust memorial train sparks bitter dispute in Berlin By DPA Tags: Berlin, Holocaust  A steam-drawn Holocaust memorial train is set to make four stops in the German capital, organizers said Saturday, a day before the event which has been at the center of controversy. The society that devised the project aims to highlight the role of the German railways system in the Holocaust, touring Germany with the l Advertisement ocomotive and two carriages containing photographs to represent thousands of child victims of the genocide. Earlier, a bitter row erupted over finding appropriate places for the train to stop upon its arrival in Berlin on Sunday. German Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee came down strongly on the side of the association that organized and raised funding for the "Train of Commemoration" in its battle with the state-owned national rail company, Deutsche Bahn (DB). DB ruled out Berlin's gleaming new steel-and-glass central station as a possible stop for the memorial train, saying the steam-powered train would trigger the smoke detectors - which apparently cannot be turned off. The company has also insisted on charging the standard 3 euros ($4.50) a kilometer for the train to use its network, as well as hefty fees for the train to stop at stations for visitors to see its rolling exhibition. "A central place must be found in Berlin," Tiefensee said. "I call on DB to adopt a constructive attitude." The Berliner Zeitung daily published scathing criticism: "DB is trying every trick in the book to obstruct this commemoration of children deported in the Nazi era." The train, comprising an old steam engine and two carriages, is a traveling exhibition documenting in word and image how some 12,000 children were murdered by the Nazis, many of them transported in cattle trucks for days to their deaths in camps like Auschwitz. After considerable pressure, DB finally relented and allowed the train to stop at Grunewald in Berlin, the station from where the Berlin transports to Auschwitz left between 1941 and the end of the war. But these days, Grunewald is an obscure suburban station in the west of the capital, and the organizers remain determined that the train should be allowed to stop at the showpiece central station to allow many more visitors to see the exhibition. The train is to spend 10 days at various stations in the capital before heading for cities throughout the east and then on to Auschwitz in Poland where the journey ends on May 8, the day that marks the end of World War II in Europe. Tiefensee called on DB to donate back to the organizers the 100,000 euros it charged them since the train began rolling through Germany on November 8 last year. Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit reminded DB that the Holocaust was planned in Berlin and executed from there. Wowereit, who is gay, is well aware that the Nazis also aimed to exterminate homosexuals. "Berlin's Jews were systematically deported to the death camps, and by train. For this reason, precisely in Berlin, it must be possible for this commendable commemoration project to receive every support," the mayor said. Related articles: Police: Vandals attack Berlin 'Platform 17' Holocaust memorial Merkel urges tolerance after Holocaust memorial defaced More Jewish World news and features Bookmark to del.icio.us   Nakba protest World Likud chief calls for cancellation of Nakba Day procession. Perfect match TA court sentences 'DNA Rapist' to 25 years in prison.   1.   DB Charged Jews for trips to Auschwitz 02:16  |  Elly 13/04/08   2.   all Germans 03:41  |  TAZ 13/04/08   3.   Deutsche Bahn (DB). CULTURE 05:39  |  JOHN ISH ISHMAEL 13/04/08   4.   Enough is enough already 08:39  |  bob 13/04/08   5.   next 50 years in Palestine 08:56  |  kasper 13/04/08   6.   Elly - The Jews did pay.. 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