Directories

Record series 0393LM and 0487LM consist of directories of the company’s Directorates and departments, between 1939 and 1945.

Posters

We would like to point out the existence of advertising and propaganda posters for the 1939-1945 period. All posters published during the war were required to bear, printed on the plate, the mark ORAFF followed by a series of numbers. This is the stamp of the Office de répartition de l’affichage, a supervisory body created under German control in November 1941.
The main themes covered are:

• Safety
• The coal battle
• Solidarity week
• Theft
• Machine sabotage

Some of them were published in magazines but were not deposited with SNCF’s Centre national des Archives historiques.

The Bachelier report

“La SNCF sous l’Occupation allemande (1940-1944)” (« SNCF under the German Occupation »). Christian Bachelier, Paris, IHTP-CNRS, 1996.
This is a documentary report, in 5 volumes.

• Full report (in 2 volumes, 914 pages)
• Volume 1 of appendices to the Bachelier report, relating to general documents (87 items)
• Volume 2 of the appendix to the Bachelier report, “Les déportations” (« The deportations ») (212 pages). The documents reproduced in this appendix come from various sources. Only a few of them come from the SNCF historical archives
• End-of-contract report by C. Bachelier, “Le rôle de la SNCF dans les déportations, 1942-1944” (« SNCF’s role in the deportations, 1942-1944 »), February 1994 (73 pages)

Notre Métier

This is a professional and social information magazine for the railway workers of France, published by SNCF. This magazine is known today as La Vie du Rail.

• From November 1939 to May 1940 (issues 1 to 7)
• From September 1944 to December 1945 (issues 1 to 42)
• Year 1946 (issues 43 to 86)

La Région de l’Est de la SNCF

Access the book. Imprimerie des dernières nouvelles de Strasbourg, 1947. 113 pages.

• Part I. “Mobilisation et concentration” (« Mobilisation and concentration »)
• Part II. “Période d’opération militaire d’octobre 1939 à juin 1940” (« Period of military operations from October 1939 to June 1940 »)
• Part III. “L’occupation allemande” (« The German occupation »)
• Part IV. “La Libération” (« The Liberation »)
• Appendix: detailed list of Région Est staff killed or missing due to acts of war, from 1939 to 1945.

The roll of honour of the victims of the 39-45 war

Nominative register containing the staff number, surname and first name, job, residence, age, family situation, date of joining SNCF, the date and circumstances of injuries, and any remarks (108 pages).

• Mobilised staff killed by the enemy
• Mobilised staff wounded by the enemy and discharged by the military authority
• Staff killed in railway service due to acts of war
• Staff seriously wounded or maimed in railway service due to acts of war
• Staff killed or maimed by acts of war outside of service

History of the SNCF Technical Delegation in Vichy

In 2 files: book 1, book 2,

• Chapter 1. Creation – Establishment and Mission – Situation of repatriation transport at the time the Vichy Technical Delegation took up its role
• Chapter 2. Repatriation transport from the unoccupied zone to the occupied zone
• Chapter 3. Repatriation transport of released prisoners bound for the unoccupied zone
• Chapter 4. Expelled Alsatians and Lorrainers
• Chapter 5. Military transport
• Chapter 6. Chantiers de Jeunesse (Youth Work Camps)
• Chapter 7. Inter-zone transport of soldiers on leave
• Chapter 8. Inter-zone transport in group convoys of Ministries’ civilian staff
• Chapter 9. Official travel of senior figures
• Chapter 10. Miscellaneous staff transport
• Chapter 11. Special freight transport
• Chapter 12. Miscellaneous

Arrondissement bulletins

• Produced by the 9th Arrondissement Traction Sud-Est (1941-1945)
• Produced by the 10th Arrondissement Traction Sud-Est (1941-1946)

The Bischheim photo album

“Les ateliers de Bischheim à l’heure nazie” (« The Bischheim workshops in the Nazi era ») 1940-1944. Produced by C. Jehlé (94 pages, colour).