In December 1939 , on the request of Hans Frank in Berlin , the '' Ostbahndirektion '' was given financial independence after paying back 10 million Reichsmarks to DRB . The removal of all bomb damage was completed in 1940 . The Polish management was either executed in mass shooting actions ( see : the 1939 '' Intelligenzaktion '' and the 1940 German AB-Aktion in Poland ) or imprisoned at the Nazi concentration camps . Managerial jobs were staffed with German officials in a wave of some 8,000 instant promotions . The new Eastern Division of DRB acquired of new railway lines and 1,052 km of ( mostly industrial ) narrow gauge in the annexed areas
Intelligenzaktion
Intelligenzaktion
Ostbahn (General Government)