The reigning world champions kick off their Euro 2016 campaign on Sunday against Ukraine aiming to join an elite group of double winners
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Germany have done it before - with victories in 1972 and 1974. But with a new generation, the product of a decade-long revolution, the hunger to be crowned undisputed kings of international football is present.
Joachim Low's side aim to repeat the success of Spain - winners of the 2008 and 2012 European Championships, and the 2010 World Cup - by claiming both major international prizes in successive cycles. Just one other nation has achieved such outstanding dominance, with France collecting the World Cup on home soil in 1998 before snatching Euro 2000 glory from Italian hands.