The post-war period is considered a phase of remasculinization. Societally accepted notions of masculinity, based on performance, community orientation, and heterosexuality, placed men who were different under pressure to conform. But how did the self-assertion attempts of war veterans, homeless individuals, or homosexuals impact the prevailing ideal of masculinity? This collection sheds light on the experiences of men with flaws and differentiates the often-cited thesis of a crisis of masculinity in the 1950s and 1960s. This reveals the driving forces and obstacles to the individualization and pluralization of life concepts in the young Federal Republic.