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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 photographsżmany published for the first time in this bookżhidden 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.

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• Full title: Soccer under the Swastika
• Subtitle: Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust
• Author: Kevin E. Simpson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9781442261624
• ISBN: 1442261625
• ID: 11063879
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Weight: 700 g
• Dimensions: 160 × 236 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. September 2016

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