Soccer under the Swastika : stories of survival and resistance during the Holocaust
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. Includes bibliographical references and index. xxix, 315 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Simpson, Kevin E.,
- NIOD Bibliotheek
- Text
- ocn945028484
- Jewish soccer players--History--20th century.
- Soccer and war--Europe--History--20th century.
- National socialism and soccer.
- Soccer--Europe--History--20th century.
- Soccer--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories.
- Soccer players--History--20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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