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On Germany's national soccer stage, why have East Germans gone missing?

  • Written by Per Urlaub, Associate Dean of the Language Schools and Associate College Professor, Middlebury College
Toni Kroos is the only East German on the German national soccer team.AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Germany is a soccer powerhouse.

Yet only one member of the national team competing in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, midfielder Toni Kroos, hails from East Germany.

For a period of over 40 years in the 20th century, Germany was divided into two separate...

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