In 1992, Dennis Schröder’s mother arrived in Braunschweig, a small town of 250,000 people located in central Germany, about 150 miles west down highway A2 from Berlin.
Her future NBA point guard son was born in 1993, 61 years after the city of Braunschweig infamously granted Adolf Hitler German citizenship to allow him to run in the 1932 German presidential election. As a child, Schröder was asked by the other German kids about why his skin was dirty, and faced racism in his adolescence until he emerged as a basketball prodigy.
Dennis Schröder: Part 1 - The Journey
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