{"id":67773,"date":"2019-02-15T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=67773"},"modified":"2019-02-15T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T09:03:13","slug":"21-05-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=67773","title":{"rendered":"German Protestant Church Sued to Remove Its Nazi-Adorned Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>German Protestant Church Sued to Remove Its Nazi-Adorned Bell<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

David Israel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nazi church bell in Thuringia, Germany<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Public prosecutors in the central German state of Thuringia this week announced that the regional Evangelical Church has been sued by an anonymous individual of violating the state\u2019s ban on Nazi symbols by continuing to use its bells which are decorated with Nazi inscriptions, most notably swastikas, Deutsche Welle reported Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bronze bells in question are inscribed with a swastika and the slogan: \u201cEverything for the Fatherland \u2013 Adolf Hitler.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, Hitler\u2019s fatherland was Austria, but that\u2019s just being picky.<\/span><\/p>\n

The criminal complaint, filed on February 2, claims six bells are in routine use in five churches in Thuringia, including on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The plaintiff, whose relatives were victims of the Nazis, asked the church many times to stop using the illegal bells, but was unabashedly ignored every time, and condemned the church\u2019s \u201cmockery of the victims of Hitler\u2019s terror.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A church spokesman argued that the Nazi symbols can be removed, but not without a permission to ignore rules covering the preservation of historical monuments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heike Taubert, Thuringia\u2019s Deputy PM and finance minister, said the state is willing to help finance new bells, as soon as the churches get rid of their Nazi bells, saying \u201cNazi bells belong to the dark side of our history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jewish community of Thuringia earlier this year complained about six Nazi church bells, and community leader Reinhard Scramm said their continued use was a case of \u201chistorical amnesia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There are at least 23 Nazi bells in use in churches across Germany, according to Der Spiegel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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German Protestant Church Sued to Remove Its Nazi-Adorned Bell David Israel Nazi church bell in Thuringia, Germany Public prosecutors in the central German state of Thuringia this week announced that the regional Evangelical Church has been sued by an anonymous individual of violating the state\u2019s ban on Nazi symbols by continuing to use its bells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67773"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67816,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67773\/revisions\/67816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}