List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Sports and Games, 1925-28 Staging the Republic: Constitution Day Festivities in 1929 Republican Nationalism: The Rhineland Celebration in 1930 Party Rallies and the Thingspiel in the Third Reich The Death of the Spectacle in the mid-1930s 'Like 100 years ago...'Local Festivities in Weimar and Nazi Germany Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index