Hermann Goring, a senior member of Adolf Hitler’s regime, issues an official decree on March 15, 1940, for the reclamation of church bells to secure raw materials such as bronze and for the armaments industry. Approximately 175,000 church bells were confiscated across Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe and about 150,000 of them were melted down .
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