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In consequence, bourgeois sports organisations and their representatives considered the Kampfspiele as ‘the German Olympic Games’. The first Kampfspiele took place in Berlin in 1922 followed by the ones in Cologne four years later and the event was continued in the Nazi period too. Although the name Kampfspiele (combat games) might suggest militaristic drill closely linked to soldiers’ exercises, this impression is misleading. The event was a typical sporting competition including football games, swimming, athletics and gymnastics.

1 The reasons for this enthusiasm have been interpreted differently. It is sometimes regarded as a continuation of playing war by different means with its focus on physical strength, competition, struggle and victory. Indeed, left-wing sport organisations often criticised their middle-class counterparts for this very reason. Some historians have explained the enthusiasm by suggesting that young people found in sports and body culture the clarity and clear-cut ideas they missed in the political, social and cultural life of the Weimar Republic.

The postcard for its Constitution Day festivities in 1928, inviting all republicans to join, showed the Paulskirche—the location of Germany’s first parliament in 1848—and a republican flag in front of it. The displayed republican symbols could be easily connected to Frankfurt’s past and to the republican present. After all, the Paulskirche was still there, and so were black-red-gold flags as the national flag of the Weimar Republic. The symbolic language of the postcard combined two objects that possessed unambiguous potential of identification.

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