Soccer under the Swastika

Description:

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.

subjects: Occupied territories,  Jewish soccer players,  World War, 1939-1945,  Soccer players,  National socialism and soccer,  Soccer and war,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),  Soccer,  History,  Soccer, history,  World war, 1939-1945, occupied territories,  National socialism,  Military occupation,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866,  World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924

Places: Europe

Times: 20th century