Germany has a habit of winning the World Cup at symbolic moments. Victory in 1954 – captured in the film, The Miracle of Bern – allowed Germans a moment of pride and redemption after defeat and disgrace in 1945. A second victory in 1974 went to a West Germany whose “economic miracle” had, by then, allowed it to regain its status as one of the world’s most advanced nations. Victory in 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, caught the joy and potential of a soon-to-be united Germany.
德國(guó)有在具有象征意義的時(shí)刻贏得世界杯的慣例。1954年世界杯奪冠——被拍成電影《伯爾尼的奇跡》(The Miracle of Bern)——讓德國(guó)人在1945年的戰(zhàn)敗和恥辱之后迎來(lái)了自豪和救贖的時(shí)刻。1974年西德贏得第二次世界杯冠軍，當(dāng)時(shí)該國(guó)創(chuàng)造的“經(jīng)濟(jì)奇跡”已讓其重新成為全球最發(fā)達(dá)的國(guó)家之一。在“柏林墻”倒塌僅僅數(shù)月之后的1990年世界杯上奪冠，則正好趕上了德國(guó)即將統(tǒng)一帶來(lái)的喜悅和光明前景。