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After Austria was "connected", the E44 should also be used on the Alpine routes of the "Ostmark". In order to minimize brake pad wear when driving downhill, it was necessary to install an electrical resistance brake. The DRB ordered such an additional device for the machines of lot E44 152 - 191 and designated the subtype as E44W for "resistance brake". Due to the war, only the E44W 152 - 183 were delivered between 1943 and 1951. Externally, the machines were particularly noticeable due to the exhaust air chimneys of the braking resistors on the roof. After 1945, the DB only maintained the resistance brakes on the 16 Freiburg locomotives used in Höllental and designated them as E44.11 from 1962, and as BR 145 after 1968. The electric brakes on all the others were removed or shut down in the event of damage. E44 1170 and 1180 were preserved, it is to be hoped that one of them will be left behind at Hirschsprung again.