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How this soccer player saved a Jewish teenager from persecution in Nazi Germany
By Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — After Germany hosted the England soccer team in May 1938, Rolf Friedland waited patiently outside the stadium. The teenager was hoping to speak to some of soccer’s biggest stars of the time – a feeling of anticipation that …