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Historically, the Social Democrats have been known as an"everyman's party,"but times are changing. The SPD's card-carrying membership has shrunk to less than 500,000 for the first time in over a century. The figure had at one point been in excess of one million.
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Series: Taking Germany's Pulse | People & Politics
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