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Introduction,meling as a sports star, a role model and national hero. It surveys the existing publications focused on Schmeling. As a comparison, the chapter presents Muhammad Ali as a well-known example of an athlete who has transcended his sport to become a myth and briefly examines how this was achieved. The

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,After 1945: “The Good German”,the continued relevance of the idea of “success” in perceptions of his business career. The chapter also considers the tensions between competing discourses of German national identity and history and attempts to explain how Schmeling’s potentially problematic image as “Hitler’s champion” was erased

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No More Heroes?: Conclusion,the modern world. It asks what distinguishes the sports icon from the sports hero and what qualifies the latter to be a national hero, and it considers whether the nationalistic implications make the continued representation of Schmeling—or any sports star—in such terms problematic. Comparisons are

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The Weimar Republic 2: The American Dream,elf-made man and the appeal of “success” stories, the representation of Schmeling as a professional and his representation as an embodiment of contemporary notions of . (objectivity), rationalization and efficiency.