Kevin E. Simpson

Soccer under the Swastika

Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reveals the surprising role soccer played during World War II. It uncovers many survivor testimonies and old accounts of wartime players, revealing hidden stories of soccer in almost every Nazi concentration camp. To these prisoners, soccer was a glimmer of joy amid hunger and torture, and a show of resistance against the Nazi regime.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 749g
• ISBN-13: 9781442261624
• ISBN-10: 1442261625
• Artikelnr.: 44731073

Autorenporträt

By Kevin E. Simpson

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Foreword by Simon Kuper Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter
1: Soccer under the Swastika Chapter 2: War Minus the Shooting Chapter 3:
The Match of Death Chapter 4: The Beautiful Game in the KZ Chapter 5:
Genius on the Danube: Requiem for Vienna's "Decadent" Football Chapter 6:
Football in the Polish Killing Fields: Eyewitnesses to Nazi Terror Chapter
7: The Curious Story of Dutch Soccer during Nazi Occupation Chapter 8:
Ghetto Soccer in Liga Terezín Chapter 9: After the Catastrophe Notes
Bibliography About the Author