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Wolfgang Behrendt had to prepare a paper on
Goethe’s Faust for his diploma, he could rely, as
a matter-of-course, on the advice of the literary
expert of the newspaper he is now employed with.
The socialist principle of the all-round education
of man makes all this seem natural in a socialist
state. And, therefore, the career of a world
champion in the GDR is a quite ordinary one,
without much fuss and without any
commercialization.
GDR AT OLYMPICS
The German Democratic Republic (GDR),
often called East Germany, founded a
separate National Olympic Committee for
socialist East Germany on 22 April 1951 in
the Rotes Rathaus of East Berlin. This was the
last of three German Olympic committees of the
time. It was not recognized by the IOC for over a
decade.
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