Dortmund: How a German Rust-Belt City Became the World’s Accidental Prophet
DORTMUND—Population 588,250, latitude 51.5136° N, longitude 7.4653° E—looks, at first glance, like the kind of place cartographers label with a shrug: “somewhere in the Ruhr.” Yet the city has improbably elbowed its way onto the global stage with the subtlety of a pickpocket at Davos. Its weapons? A football club whose yellow wall of ultras…