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Tor history of german football12/26/2023 ![]() Germany did not have professional players or a national league until the 1960s, yet it became one of the most successful football nations in the world. ‘Have you read Tor!? That’s a book about German football, that's a really good book that’ – Mark E. ‘Beautifully crafted, demolishes myths with the cold-blooded efficiency of a literary Gerd Müller’ – The Times ‘In Hesse’s capable hands, the history of German football seems more entertaining, unpredictable and scandal-infested than England’s’ – FourFourTwo ‘without question the most entertaining historical football book ever written’ – The Guardian Like archaeologists trying to picture a whole vase from a single fragment, the builders took a façade, or just a small fraction of one, and set about re-creating the whole.Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award The restoration was so successful that looking at these 18th and 19th century buildings it's difficult to believe that as recently as the 1960s large patches of the centre lay in ruins. The result was a pleasing re-creation of the old city. ![]() Paradoxically it was the post-war communist regime that resurrected them from the wartime rubble. ![]() Almost every one of these symbols of Prussian might was left gutted by the bombing and shelling of WWII. Traditional Baroque and Neoclassical styles predominate. ![]() With Prussia's rise its architects were commissioned to create the trappings of a worthy Weldstadt (world city) with appropriately stately institutions built on and around Unter den Linden. An important historical district, this was key in Berlin's 18th century transformation from a relative backwater to the capital of Prussia, which became one of Europe's biggest players. ![]()
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