German village and the Hitler Bell..

[birdie]

https://www.thelocal.de/20180227/ger...ll-as-memorial

[Tom B]

Wow !!!! I'm surprised the German Government allows it to stay !!!! Tom

[ENGLISH BOB]

Wow !!!! I'm surprised the German Government allows it to stay !!!! Tom

Well its not in plain sight and you'd have to climb the belfry to be offended

I hope they put a surveillance camera on it though as another Fuhrer bell that was found and reported was defaced,somebody climbed up and took an angle grinder to the wording and Swastika

[jmcm]

I wonder how much it would cost to send to the US?

[Tom B]

Well its not in plain sight and you'd have to climb the belfry to be offended

I hope they put a surveillance camera on it though as another Fuhrer bell that was found and reported was defaced,somebody climbed up and took an angle grinder to the wording and Swastika

yes, but it's still against the law in Germany. Tom

[Zirnhelt]

Im glad they're keeping it but i do wonder how long it will be before
it gets defaced. Vince

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi,

article for the WAF archives.

Village in southwest Germany votes to keep 'Hitler bell' as memorial

Photo: DPA

AFP
news@thelocal.de
@thelocalgermany
27 February 2018
10:45 CET+01:00

A German village has decided to keep a contentious Nazi-era church bell that bears a swastika and the words "All for the Fatherland - Adolf Hitler", arguing it serves as a reminder of the country's dark past.

The parish council of Herxheim voted 10-3 on Monday that the bronze bell from 1934 should remain as "an impetus for reconciliation and a memorial against violence and injustice".

The council rejected an offer by the regional Protestant Church to pay for taking down the 240 kilogram bell and replacing it.

A memorial pointing to the bell's history will now be fixed on the heritage-listed church, the Jakobskirche.

The village of just 700 people has repeatedly caught national attention for the controversial "Hitler bell" since a former church organist complained about the inscription.

Some church-goers were dismayed to find out that they had got married, baptized their children or joined other religious ceremonies and events under the Hitler bell.

Last year the former town mayor, Roland Becker, resigned over comments that appeared to defend not just the bell but the Nazi era.

Amid the controversy, the bell was silenced last September and a second one used, pending the municipal decision in the southwestern village near the university city of Heidelberg.

At Monday evening's meeting, village mayor Georg Welker said that "the community needs clarity which way we should go", national news agency DPA reported.

He presented an expert's opinion that judged the bell had heritage value and should either stay in place or be taken to a museum.

Disposing of it would represent "an evasion of a reasonable and enlightened culture of remembrance", the expert's opinion found.

The decision by the council to keep the bell was greeted with applause from many community members, DPA reported.


See You

Vince

PS : if people are offensed, they can sell the bell on auction, some collector will be ready to pay a lot of money to get the bell, and they will be able to buy a new "virgin" bell. Case closed.

[Gran Sasso]

yes, but it's still against the law in Germany. Tom

Its not!

[ENGLISH BOB]

Its not!

Only in a public place except museums...right Patrick?

This is in a bell tower so technically its not a public place as its off limits to the general public...

[Immelmann]

local reds completely ground off all the motifs with an angle grinder....but of course were not prosecuted the same way tjose terrorists in US tear down statues

[bigschuss]

This is old news gang, isn't it? The site the OP linked is from a Feb. 2018 article. Pretty sure this is the bell that was completely defaced with an angle grinder, not another newly discovered bell.