UID:
almafu_9961448518402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (373 p.)
ISBN:
1-4422-6163-3
Inhalt:
As millions were caught up in the conflict of World War II, soccer emerged as both a response to domination and a means of manipulation by those in power. Soccer under the Swastika reveals this little-known part of history, rescuing from obscurity many poignant survivor testimonies, old accounts of wartime players, and the diaries of survivors and perpetrators. In victim accounts and rare photographs-many published for the first time in this book-hidden stories of soccer in almost every Nazi concentration camp appear. To these captives, soccer was a means of survival, a glimmer of joy between
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Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Soccer under the Swastika; 2 War Minus the Shooting; 3 The Match of Death; 4 The Beautiful Game in the KZ; 5 Genius on the Danube; 6 Football in the Polish Killing Fields; 7 The Curious Story of Dutch Soccer during Nazi Occupation; 8 Ghetto Soccer in Liga Terezín; 9 After the Catastrophe; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4422-6162-5
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
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