MAGDEBURG, Germany: Magdeburg was once the go-to city for tales of former communist East Germany’s woes, a bastion of joblessness, neo-Nazis and despair that belied the joyful hopes of the country’s 1990 reunification.

Fast-forward to 2013 amid a campaign for September 22 elections and a robust economic upswing under Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in the east, and the picture looks very different.

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