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Rise in the West

To put it more precisely: for a long

To put it more precisely: for a long time such a rise seemed unthinkable, and it came about only through several, at times spectacular, twists in the club's history.

To put it more precisely: for a long time such a rise seemed unthinkable, and it came about only through several, at times spectacular, twists in the club's history. And no, Borussia Dortmund were not for a long time a traditional power either. In the first ten years after the war, whenever people traded in Ruhr football cliches, Schalke 04 with immortal heroes Ernst Kuzorra and Fritz Szepan, Rot-Weiss Essen with World Cup hero Helmut Rahn, or MSV Duisburg with Riegel-Rudi Gutendorf were the names that defined the folklore.\n\nThey embodied a football culture of their own.

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