Is HOTNAT valid when travelling between two ICE trains with two separate Tickets

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Checking Trainline's website, it looks as if DB's twitter is incorrect here:

If you are travelling by high-speed trains and your connection is between 2 different carriers, then you could benefit from the HOTNAT guarantee (“Hop On The Next Available Train”). Although an available seat is not guaranteed. Eligible criteria:

Missed a connection between 2 high-speed trains from the Railteam alliance: DB (ICE), SNCF (TGV), Eurostar, Thalys, TGV Lyria.

AND

Your connection departs from one of these stations.

...Frankfurt Main Station...

Since you say you have an SNCF ticket, I would very strongly assume that the fact that DB happens to operate the specific train is irrelevant - presumably at different times SNCF and DB operate the route.

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For anyone interested, I have found the answer.

For tickets where it is possible to book a through ticket on the DB website (Leipzig -> Paris), if you have two tickets you cannot be guaranteed to be allowed onto the next train, they may allow this as a gesture of goodwill, but if missing the first connection within Germany means you miss the Eurostar, that’s a new ticket, unless they also offer a gesture of goodwill.

So - don’t book through Trainline, always book through DB directly as this will allow you to obtain a DB ticket to Paris/Brussels with guaranteed connections.

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