In this picture taken July 10, 2013, Raimund Fastenbauer , a senior …
In this picture taken July 10, 2013, Raimund Fastenbauer , a senior official of Vienna's Jewish community, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Vienna. Ensconced in the belfry of an ancient castle in Wolfpassing, Austria, where it was mounted by fans of the Nazi dictator in 1939, a bell with swastika and Hitler's name has tolled on for nearly 80 years. It survived the defeat of Hitler’s Germany, a decade of post-war Soviet occupation that saw Red Army soldiers bivouacked in the castle and more recent efforts by Austrian government to acknowledge the country’s complicity in crimes of that era and make amends. “I think the best thing would be if the bell disappeared and was buried somewhere,” Fastenbauer says. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)
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