Waubonsee Community College

Soccer under the Swastika, stories of survival and resistance during the Holocaust, Kevin E. Simpson

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Soccer under the Swastika

bibliography

945028484

Kevin E. Simpson

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

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