Thuringia

The state of Thuringia came in the news in 2019 because there would still be 5 churches with 6 Hitler clocks in the area. One does not want to tell where these churches are located because they fear a pilgrim effect on neo-Nazis or a vandalism effect of anti-Nazis. It would be about churches of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. A Hitler clock is a clock that was given by the Hitler regime with a swastika on it. It is said that one of the bells bears the inscription "Cast in the second year of the national exaltation under Fuehrer and chancellor Adolf Hitler". On another clock a relief of Hitler can be seen. There are more church bells in Germany with inscriptions from Nazi times. Some ecclesiastical leaders find that they have to be removed, others believe that a memory of the past, no matter how black, should not be erased. In an interview with writer, Germany expert and journalist Geert van Istendael, he pleaded to provide context and inform hte audience about this part of the history rather than trying to erase all historical relics from this period.

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