Soccer under the swastika
Subtitle: stories of survival and resistance during the Holocaust
By: Kevin E. Simpson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781442261624
Subjects: Occupied territories; Jewish soccer players; World War, 1939-1945; Soccer players; National socialism and soccer; Soccer and war; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Soccer; History
Description: 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 daily beatings and torture, and a show of resistance against the most heinous regime the world had ever seen.--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Soccer under the Swastika; title: War Minus the Shooting; title: The Match of Death; title: The Beautiful Game in the KZ; title: Genius on the Danube : Requiem for Vienna's "Decadent" Football; title: Football in the Polish Killing Fields : Eyewitnesses to Nazi Terror; title: The Curious Story of Dutch Soccer during Nazi Occupation; title: Ghetto Soccer in Liga Terezin; title: After the Catastrophe.