Germans quietly adjusted. By end of 1940 bomb damage in Berlin had become a tourist attraction, to be photographed before it disappeared. Liselotte Purper was on a night train to the Netherlands, dreaming that she was back at school, when the sirens went. She did not even wake up till the all-clear sounded. Carola Reissner also stopped getting out of bed for air raid alarms in Essen. As the Christmas holidays passed uneventfully in Münster, Paulheinz Wantzen thought that ‘in general people are reckoning with a long war, without being particularly worried or bothered about it. In its current
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