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In a precedent-setting case brought by Alain and his sister, SNCF, the national railway of France, was ordered on June 6, 2006, to pay almost $ 80, 000 in reparations for transporting members of their family to the Drancy deportation camp during World War II.

SNCF argued at trial that they were at the time under orders of the German military ; the railroad further argued that the German military threatened to shoot any railroad official who disobeyed their orders.

The court disagreed with SNCF concluding that there was no way that SNCF could have avoided knowledge of the prisoners ' likely deportation to concentration camps and that SNCF made no effort to either protest the transportation or to transport them in a humane manner.