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Berlin - World Cup Semi-Final

The hosts of the World Cup are out. Two last minute goals from the Italians killed a whole nation's dream and a fantasy of recovery from the recent depression - both economic and emotional. We'll all have to keep guessing what would have happened if Germany would have won the World Cup, if the abolition of the mental East/West division was ever going to be possible again, if the economy and the ethos of a nation was going to boost again. Yesterday we didn't know that. What we knew, though, is that it was going to be a quite shaky night in the streets of Berlin. We wanted to capture both perspectives so we sent Nina, one of our new interns, to Brandenburg's Gate, where more than 800,000 Germans were gathered to see the game. On the other side, Jane Stockdale preferred to hang out in one of biggest and most charismatic Italian restaurants in Berlin.

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Have a look at all of the pictures in the photo blog and also some videos we filmed:

Italian frenzy after qualifying for the final

German hoolies waiting at the door of the Italian restaurant and a repressed fight

Gay Brazilian couple on Germany and Germans

Stupid German fans

One particularly stupid German fan