(The following appeared on the Washington Post website on May 18, 2011.)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A company part-owned by the French railroad will have to detail the railway’s role in transporting Holocaust victims to Nazi death camps before it can compete again to operate Maryland commuter trains, according to legislation that Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) is scheduled to sign Thursday.
The law will make Maryland the first state to require that a company seeking government rail contracts provides all records about Nazi victims it transported and any personal belongings taken from them, supporters said.
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