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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Historical Perspectives on the German Football Nation -- Part I -- A Border-Crossing Game: German Football and International Cultural Exchange -- Chapter 1 -- The Introduction and Integration of Football into a Divided Society: Conservative and Socialist Football in Germany from 1871 to 1933 -- Chapter 2 -- Fußball Internationale: Toward a Global History of GDR Football -- Chapter 3 -- Local Fans, Global Players: Contradictions in Postindustrial Football -- Part II -- Race, Exclusion, and Otherness in German Football

For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a single-minded emphasis on repression and coercion fails to address a number of important historical issues, including those related to the subjective experiences of those who lived under communist regimes. With that in mind, the essays in this volume explore significant physical and psychological aspects of life in the GDR, such as health and diet, leisure and dining, memories of the Nazi past, as well as identity, sports, and experiences of everyday humiliation. Situating the GDR within a broader historical context, they open up new ways of interpreting life behind the Iron Curtain – while providing a devastating critique of misleading mainstream scholarship, which continues to portray the GDR in the restrictive terms of totalitarian theory.