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Wschód contra Zachód. Kontakty piłkarskie w Berlinie jako egzemplifikacja relacji pomiędzy wschodnimi i zachodnimi Niemcami

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Wojtaszyn D.
Przegląd Zachodni
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2020
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issue 2 (375)
319-333
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The aim of the article is an attempt to present football relations between the most important, best and most influential teams in Berlin - Hertha BSC Berlin and 1. FC Union Berlin. The two teams are diametrically different from each other - they come from the western and eastern part of the city, have different history, social background and philosophy and strategy of the club. The history of both clubs provides a background for showing the relations between the Berlin football fans. The analysis - covering the period since the 1970s, i.e. the period of constructing an organised supporter movement - has shown that the mutual relations between the supporters can be treated as a symbolic instance of the complicated relations between the citizens of East and West (both Berlin and the whole Germany). The situation in Berlin's supporter community reflects the history of the city's growing together and the mutual relations between its eastern and western part and its inhabitants. Football has been treated as a kind of medium through which the convictions of large social groups are most freely expressed, reflecting the sympathy and antipathy of the city's inhabitants. A review of the narrative literature of the subject was carried out and the methodology of political sciences was used.
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Sport across Cold War borders in the 1970s and 1980s: East and West German football fans and players under surveillance

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Dennis M.
Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
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2022
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vol. 14
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issue 2
51-73
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Given the cultural centrality of sport during the Cold War, the East German communist authorities constructed an elaborate system of surveillance to prevent flight to the West by sport personalities and to control private interactions between East and West Germans, encounters that increased exponentially in the détente era. East German football fans met up with West German counterparts to watch games in East Berlin as well as at high-profile matches in Eastern Europe that involved clubs such as Bayern Munich and the West German national team. Cross-border interconnections were especially close between supporters of Hertha Berlin in the West and those of Union Berlin in the East whose bitter rivalry with the Stasi-supported BFC Dynamo frequently erupted in violence. Widespread outbursts of ‘hooliganism’ and East-West football entanglements testified not only to the fracturing of Cold War polarities but also to the prevalence of autonomous activities in society that contributed to the cultural ‘defeat’ of GDR- -style socialism.
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