Anonymous intruders ground away inscriptions on the church's bell, left a note saying they were removing filth:
Deutsche Welle
"A note left on the church door claimed responsibility for the action....[It] bore the heading 'Spring Cleaning 2018'...saying that town's 'respectable, intellectual and cosmopolitan citizens' could not stand idly by"
"The bell, which currently hangs in the church's tower, had been the subject of intense discussion over the past months following its discovery in September 2017. After temporarily silencing the bell, church officials from Balge, the parish to which the Schweringen church belongs, decided in mid-March to put the bell back in use"
"the town of Herxheim in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate also decided at the end of February after a village vote that a bell bearing the inscription "Everything for the Fatherland — Adolf Hitler" should remain in its church tower"
Deutsche Welle
"A note left on the church door claimed responsibility for the action....[It] bore the heading 'Spring Cleaning 2018'...saying that town's 'respectable, intellectual and cosmopolitan citizens' could not stand idly by"
"The bell, which currently hangs in the church's tower, had been the subject of intense discussion over the past months following its discovery in September 2017. After temporarily silencing the bell, church officials from Balge, the parish to which the Schweringen church belongs, decided in mid-March to put the bell back in use"
"the town of Herxheim in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate also decided at the end of February after a village vote that a bell bearing the inscription "Everything for the Fatherland — Adolf Hitler" should remain in its church tower"