Libeň Bridge, Prague, July 1942. Germans collecting bells from Bohemia and Moravia.
Libeň Bridge, Prague, July 1942. Germans collecting bells from Bohemia and Moravia. They were smelted down and used for the war effort. At that time, five ships sailed from Prague on the Vltava and the Elbe river, 9801 bells with a total weight of 1563 tons.
A total of 43,776 bells were removed and smelted in former Czechoslovakia. Of the pre-war number, 13% remained in Bohemia and 6% in Moravia.
This happened throughout most of the occupied countries.
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