The bells were presented to the town council after the Berlin Wall fell and politicians lined up to support a phoenix-like future for the Garrison Church. These included Alexander Gauland, future leader of the Far-Right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD). Even the local protestant bishop, Wolfgang Huber, gave his blessing and, in 1990, Potsdam council backed the tower’s return in order to reinstate a once famous view of three church towers. In 2017, construction work on the church tower began in the face of protests. Tens of millions of euros have since been spent to make this happen, half the sum...