• “People have been getting married under the swastika and they didn’t even know it.”Germany’s painful history has become highly personal in a sleepy village where neighbors are fighting over what to do with a “Hitler bell” in the local church. The bell was first hung in 1934 by an enthusiastic Nazi mayor in Herxheim am Berg. The swastika and its inscription are clear: “Everything for the Fatherland — Adolf Hitler.”Jewish organizations have demanded it be taken down. The local church council banned it from ringing. But many villagers want to keep the bell, arguing it is a monument of history.

Source: New York Times September 03, 2018 03:56 UTC