Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction 1
1 Bodies and Urban Space: Parades, Marches and Demonstrations 1890s-1920s
1412 The republic and parades: Expressing republican spirit or militaris
1812 ‘A black-red-gold storm in German Cities’: Interpreting
2511 2 Sports and Games 1925-1928 3412 Frankfurt in 1925: The Worker
3512 Cologne's Kampfspi
4212 ‘
4911 3 Staging the Republic: Constitution Day Festivities in 1929 581
‘Staging the Republic’: Ideas, concepts, problems 591
Flags, masses and parades: August 1929 6612 A republican mass sp
7111 4 Republican
8012
The republic and nationalist themes 8112 The Rhineland as part o
8512 The Rhinela
9011 5 Party Rallies and t
10212 Naz
10312 The Nazi
10812 The
1131
6 The Death of the Spectacle in the mid-1930s 12112 The festive
12212 The death of
12912 Territorial un
13311
7 ‘Like 100 years ago…’: Local Festivities in W
13912 Constitution Day celebrations at local level 14012 The Reichsban
14512 Reforming popular tas
15001
15801 Notes 16601 Bibliography 20401 Index 222