{"id":87579,"date":"2026-10-20T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87579"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:31:27","slug":"cardinal-ouellet-wins-defamation-suit-after-abuse-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/cardinal-ouellet-wins-defamation-suit-after-abuse-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"When Nazis Took All The Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Bells.org:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bells.org\/sites\/default\/files\/american_lieutenant_inspects_belgian_bells_seized_by_nazis.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Between 1939 and 1945, the National Socialist German Workers&#8217; Party under Adolf Hitler \u2013 the Nazis \u2013 confiscated over 175,000 bells from towers throughout Europe. That staggering sum is only part of the devastation and horror exacted by the Nazis during World War II, but it speaks to the plundering of identity and soul that made the Nazi occupation so catastrophic.<\/p>\n<p>Much was destroyed during World War II. From human lives to cultural artifacts, the Nazis were unrelenting in their conquest. But to feed their war machine and keep their armies outfitted, the Nazis needed vast quantities of metals \u2013 and like plucking fruit from a tree, they turned to peaceable, defenseless bell towers to pillage their scrap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Bells.org: Between 1939 and 1945, the National Socialist German Workers&#8217; Party under Adolf Hitler \u2013 the Nazis \u2013 confiscated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87582,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87579\/revisions\/87582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}