ALEXIS TSIPRAS, Greece’s radical leftwing leader, has taken a bold step. Since his Syriza party became the official parliamentary opposition at last June’s election, the 38-year-old political firebrand has sounded a touch less critical of the country’s creditors. At a meeting in Berlin on January 14th with Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister, he politely presented a list of requests, ranging from debt forgiveness of the kind extended to post-war Germany and less austerity for suffering Greeks to recognition of war debts claimed by Athens against its Nazi occupiers in 1941-44.  Article