  The classical Einstein-Standard Model system with conformally invariant
coupling of the Higgs field to gravity is investigated in nearly Schwarzschild
black holes. We show that, in the presence of Kantowski-Sachs symmetries, there
is a finite critical value of the mean curvature such that on spacelike
hypersurfaces with greater mean curvature the Higgs sector does not have any
symmetry breaking vacuum state. Hence, according to the Standard Model of
particle physics, the gauge and spinor fields do not have rest mass and
electric charge. Therefore, particles falling into a nearly Schwarzschild black
hole lose their mass and charge in the "reverse" Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism.
