For educational purposes <br /><br />The rail networks most sinister function was to facilitate the Final Solution. <br /><br />Hitler and the mastermind of the Holocaust, Himmler, used the vast rail network to transport Jews to concentration camps and to their death. <br /><br />But the wider war effort was dwindling and in 1945 in Berlin, Hitler finally abandoned his beloved train and made a dash for his underground bunker - the place that would eventually become his tomb.