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.
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.
Kevin E. Simpson is professor of psychology at John Brown University. He has published widely in sport psychology, comparative genocide, and in the teaching of the psychology of the Holocaust, among other topics. Simpson was a Fulbright Fellow to the Slovak Republic and has received fellowships and grants from such institutions as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Holocaust Education Foundation of Northwestern University. He is a former college soccer player.
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
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
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