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This series focuses on events in and around the sab­o­tag­ing of an Amtrak train in Ari­zona in Octo­ber of 1995. The wreck killed sev­eral pas­sen­gers, injured many more and has gone unsolved. A note found at the site of the wreck took credit for it on behalf of “the Sons of the Gestapo” and said the action was in retal­i­a­tion for FBI actions at Waco against the Branch David­i­ans and at Ruby Ridge against Randy Weaver. Although the author­i­ties denied that there was any such orga­ni­za­tion, an enter­pris­ing Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor jour­nal­ist trav­eled to the area and dis­cov­ered that there was such a group, although local res­i­dents famil­iar with them said that they didn’t think them capa­ble of sab­o­tag­ing a train. Addi­tion­ally, the series focuses on the his­tory of fas­cist sab­o­tage against trains in the United States, going back to the World War II period. The pro­grams also present evi­dence that the SS, Hitler’s feared elite guard, may have raised a sec­ond generation—literally “the sons of the Gestapo.” (Recorded in late 1995.)