Research Catalog

Title

European football during the Second World War : training and entertainment, ideology and propaganda / Markwart Herzog and Fabian Brändle (eds) ; translated by Karina Berger.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Berger, Karina, 1977-
• Brändle, Fabian,
• Herzog, Markwart, 1958-

Description

xvii, 507 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Sport, history and culture ; vol. 8

Uniform Title

• Europäischer Fussball im Zweiten Weitkrieg. English.
• Sport, history, and culture ; v.8.

Subject

• Soccer > Europe > History > 20th century
• Soccer and war > Europe > History > 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Europe

Note

• Originally published by W. Kohlhammer, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the German.

Contents

Introduction -- football: a myth machine: the second world war, national socialism and anti-fascism -- Greater German Reich -- The German National Tam : from the last international match during the war in 1942 to the first postwar international match in 1950 -- Viennese football players and the German Wehrmacht: between 'duty' and evasion -- Football in Graz during the Second World War: the traditional clubs SK Sturm and Gak from 1939 to 1945 -- Allied and neutral countries -- Between political instrumentalization and escapism: Spanish football during the Second World War -- Football in Rome during the German and Anglo-American occupation (1943-1945) -- Neutrality as the norm? football and politics in Switzerland during the First and Second World Wars -- Switzerland's international matches during the Second World War: sport and politics, continuities and traditions -- War heroes or 'd-day dodgers' English 'wartime football' -- Bombs on seats: football and the consequences of war in an English city -- Football in the British mandate for of Palestine during the Second World War -- Eastern European countries -- Football in the occupied Soviet territories: leisure and entertainment, sport and health, politics and ideology -- Football during the Nazi occupation of Kiev: a contribution to the history and the historical context of the so-called death match in Kiev -- Football in occupied Zhytomyr (1941-1943): an oasis of normality amid war, occupation and genocide -- Football in occupied Serbia (1941-1944) -- Football "only for Germans" in the underground and in Auschwitz: championships in occupied Poland -- Football during the war as a subject of the arts -- Football on the front line: the silver tassie,: an opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage -- Football as politically neutral entertainment duringduring the Nazi war: content and impact of Robert Adolf Stemmle's romantic football movie Das grosse Spiel -- The Kiev death match: a myth and its various manifestations in cinematic and literary works.

ISBN

• 9781788744744
• 1788744748

LCCN

2018018918

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library