That town has some 'splaining to do.

In the city Karlsruhe is the "Brown House". Brown was the color of the NSDAP. The Brown House was a Gestapo-headquarter.

The house is preserved, the house is named, the house is remembered.
Punks, anarchists, extremist leftists... Nobody lays a hand on that house. Not a single scratch, not a single graffiti.
That house is kept intact.
Out of spite.
Germany refuses to let the right-wingers gloss over the past.
Germany refuses to let the right-wingers forget the past.



When you walk along ordinary sideways in german cities you will sometimes see an engraved brass coblestone. These cobblestones denote that people used to live at that address who were kidnapped by Nazis and killed.

went to the dedication ceremony of one of those cobblestones for her mother's former home. Her mother would not go back to Germany so cousin waited until she passed and had it done. It was an extremely emotional ceremony that she brought her kids (first grandchild is on the way!!!) and her husband (my blood cousin) to. The pictures are beautiful.

The bell is in a church tower.

The church tower is fairly inaccessible to people who need to get to the bells. If you don't need access to the bells, you might see the darkened bell shape through the openings in the bell tower. But you'd be on the sidewalk 30, 40, maybe 50 feet below.

In other words, you can't see if there's anything on the bell, much less read it.

It's a bell. I doubt it sounds especially anti-Semitic and that it has few specifically Nazi overtones (in the sense "harmonics&quot .

On edit: If you look at the bell and the window, you'd even notice that the inscription faces *away* from the window. You could only see it from inside the bell tower.

They believe it is important to leave the actual places and symbols of the Holocaust up and to provide teaching plaques. That way, the history can never be glossed over or covered up in the nation's memory, nor can the complicity of ordinary Germans be overlooked.

So not done out of spite, and not imposed by victorious allies.

I heard a discussion of it on an episode of NPR's On the Media, comparing it to the amount of forgetting our own history has happened in the U.S. in communities and states that have had lynchings and massacres of blacks, and that has been something that the community never talked about afterwards.

The episode aired June 1, 2018, On the Media's "The Worst Thing We've Ever Done." They always air locally at a time I'm tied up so I subscribe to the podcasts. Always thought-provoking and well-done.