Soccer under the Swastika: Defiance and Survival in the Nazi Camps and Ghettos

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.

• | Author: Kevin E. Simpson
• | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• | Publication Date: May 27, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1538138697
• | ISBN-13: 9781538138694