What were bells used for in ww1?
What were bells used for in ww1? Bells were used in early First World War propaganda to decry “the rape of Belgium.” Reports that the monks of Antwerp had refused to ring church bells to celebrate the German victory were embellished. By the time the story was reported by Le Matin in Paris, it told of defiant monks hung up and used as human clappers.
Why did they destroy bells?
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 – and like plucking fruit from a tree, they turned to peaceable, defenseless bell towers to pillage their scrap.