“Every year since 1946, at 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 13, the city churches ring out an echo of the air-raid sirens that first announced the [Allied] planes. It’s an eerie thing to witness. … In Germany you almost never see public expressions of grief over something that happened to Germans in World War II.” Yet the general public is finally working out how to reclaim this issue from the neo-Nazi movement.