- Summary
- 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.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Simpson, Kevin E., author.
- Published
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
- Locale
- Europe
- Contents
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Illustrations
Foreword / Simon Kuper
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Soccer under the Swastika
War Minus the Shooting
The Match of Death
The Beautiful Game in the KZ
Genius on the Danube: Requiem for Vienna's "Decadent" Football
Football in the Polish Killing Fields: Eyewitnesses to Nazi Terror
The Curious Story of Dutch Soccer during Nazi Occupation
Ghetto Soccer in Liga Terezin
After the Catastrophe
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Illustrations -- Foreword / Simon Kuper -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Soccer under the Swastika -- War Minus the Shooting -- The Match of Death -- The Beautiful Game in the KZ -- Genius on the Danube: Requiem for Vienna's "Decadent" Football -- Football in the Polish Killing Fields: Eyewitnesses to Nazi Terror -- The Curious Story of Dutch Soccer during Nazi Occupation -- Ghetto Soccer in Liga Terezin -- After the Catastrophe -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
