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German town votes to keep church bell dedicated to Hitler

FILE - In this May 19, 2017 file photo a bell a church bell with the inscription "Everything for the fatherland Adolf Hitler" and a swastika is pictured in the town church in Herxheim am Berg, western Germany. The small town in southwestern Germany has decided to keep the church bell dedicated to Adolf Hitler ringing, but as a memorial to spark dialogue about violence and injustice, the dpa news agency reported Tuesday Feb.27, 2018. (Uwe Anspach/dpa via AP, file)

BERLIN - A small town in southwestern Germany has decided to keep a church bell dedicated to Adolf Hitler ringing, but as a memorial to spark dialogue about violence and injustice.

The dpa news agency reported Tuesday the Herxheim am Berg council voted 10-3 to preserve the bell, which carries the inscription "Everything for the Fatherland - Adolf Hitler" above a Nazi swastika, as a memorial in its Protestant church.

State church authorities had offered to fund replacing the bell, which were widespread during the Nazi era but mostly removed after the war.

But a study had concluded removing it would be akin to "fleeing from an appropriate culture of remembrance" and recommended either leaving it in place with an explanatory plaque, or putting it in a museum.

News from © The Associated Press, 2018
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