SAO PAULO/BERLIN (Reuters) - Divided by a scoreline as wide as the Atlantic, Germans and Brazilians united after the World Cup hosts' 7-1 humiliation in writing the game into the history of both nations, well beyond the realm of football.
For Brazil, to whom global footballing domination has been a way to put its 200 million people on the map, Tuesday's semi-final trouncing by Germany not only ended hopes of erasing 64 years of pain from a shock defeat the last time it hosted the World Cup - but it might even be more devastatingly traumatic.
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