 Also privatized were the "Deutsche Reichsbahn " (German Railways), at the time the largest single public enterprise in the world, the "Vereinigte Stahlwerke A.G. " (United Steelworks), the second largest joint-stock company in Germany (the largest was IG Farben) and "Vereinigte Oberschlesische Hüttenwerke AG ", a company controlling all of the metal production in the Upper Silesian coal and steel industry.The government also sold a number of shipbuilding companies, and enhanced private utilities at the expense of municipally owned utilities companies.Additionally, the Nazis privatized some public services which had been previously provided by the government, especially social and labor-related services, and these were mainly taken over by organizations affiliated with the Nazi Party that could be trusted to apply Nazi racial policies.