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Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany

Sport, Spectacle and Political Symbolism, 1926–36

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Nadine Rossol
    Pages 1-12

  3. Bodies and Urban Space: Parades, Marches and Demonstrations 1890s–1920s

    • Nadine Rossol
    Pages 13-33

  4. Sports and Games 1925–1928

    • Nadine Rossol
    Pages 34-57

  5. Staging the Republic: Constitution Day Festivities in 1929

    • Nadine Rossol
    Pages 58-79

  6. Republican Nationalism: The Rhineland Celebration in 1930

    • Nadine Rossol
    Pages 80-101

  7. Party Rallies and the Thingspiel in the Third Reich

    • Nadine Rossol
    Pages 102-120

  8. The Death of the Spectacle in the mid-1930s

    • Nadine Rossol
    Pages 121-138

  9. ‘Like 100 years ago…’: Local Festivities in Weimar and Nazi Germany

    • Nadine Rossol
    Pages 139-157

  10. Conclusion

    • Nadine Rossol
    Pages 158-165

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 166-226
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About this book

Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany argues that political aesthetics and mass spectacles were no invention of the Nazis but characterized the period from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. In so doing, it re-examines the role of state representation and propaganda in the Weimar Republic and the Nazi dictatorship.

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'In Performing the Nation, Nadine Rossol highlights continuities in German political representation that transcended the historical divide of 1933, and, in so doing, she challenges the notion that the Nazis invented the mass spectacle...One of the greatest strengths of Rossol's study is its depiction of the gradual evolution in the scale and assertiveness of the Weimar Republic's self-celebration. Rossol's study provides another important example of the continuities that linked the Weimar Republic and the Nazi regime, and she incorporates a great deal of material in this book that will be of value to cultural historians of the period.'

- Erik Jensen, Miami University, USA

About the author

NADINE ROSSOL is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and works on twentieth century German history, in particular cultural and police history. She is currently working on a book studying the role of the police as educator in Germany. She received her doctorate from the University of Limerick in 2006.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany

  • Book Subtitle: Sport, Spectacle and Political Symbolism, 1926–36

  • Authors: Nadine Rossol

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274778

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Nadine Rossol 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-21793-5Published: 03 February 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30407-3Published: 03 February 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-27477-8Published: 03 February 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 226

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: European History, Modern History, Social History, Cultural History, History of Germany and Central Europe

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