Title: Soccer under the swastika
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.
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, Soccer, history, World war, 1939-1945, occupied territories, National socialism, Military occupation, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
Places: Europe
Time periods: 20th century