European Football During the Second World War

Markwart Herzog PhD is a philosopher of religion and sports historian and director of the Schwabenakademie Irsee. He works on topics related to the history of religion and history of sport. His main research interests include the cultural history of football, the commemorative and funerary culture of club football, the history of women’s football, sport in the National Socialist period and the media history of sport. He is a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISHO), International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES), Rotary Club Kaufbeuren, Deutsche Akademie für Fußballkultur and 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Fabian Brändle PhD is a historian and author with a research focus on «history from below», the history of folk and mass culture, the history of poverty, the history of childhood and youth, the history of the two world wars, Alsace, Tyrol and Ireland as well as the social and cultural history of sport, football and ice hockey in Switzerland.

CONTENTS: Markwart Herzog: Introduction: Football: A Myth Machine. The Second World War, National Socialism and Anti-fascism - Ulrich Matheja: The German National Team: From the Last International Match During the War in 1942 to the First Postwar International Match in 1950 - David Forster/Georg Spitaler: Viennese Football Players and the German Wehrmacht: Between «Duty» and Evasion - Walter M. Iber/Harald Knoll: Football in Graz during the Second World War: The Traditional Clubs SK Sturm and GAK from 1939 to 1945 - Jürg Ackermann: Between Political Instrumentalization and Escapism: Spanish Football during the Second World War - Marco Impiglia: Football in Rome during the German and Anglo-American Occupation (1943–1945) - Christian Koller: Neutrality as the Norm? Football and Politics in Switzerland during the First and Second World Wars - Grégory Quin/Philippe Vonnard: Switzerland’s International Matches during the Second World War: Sport and Politics, Continuities and Traditions - Fabian Brändle: War Heroes or «D-Day Dodgers»?: English «Wartime Football» - Gary Armstrong/Matthew Bell: Bombs on Seats: Football and the Consequences of War in an English City - Manfred Lämmer/Haim Kaufmann: Football in the British Mandate for Palestine during the Second World War - Alexander Friedman: Football in the Occupied Soviet Territories: Leisure and Entertainment, Sport and Health, Politics and Ideology - Maryna Krugliak/Oleksandr Krugliak: Football during the Nazi Occupation of Kiev: A Contribution to the History and the Historical Context of the So-Called Death Match in Kiev - Victor Yakovenko: Football in Occupied Zhytomyr (1941–1943): An Oasis of Normality amid War, Occupation and Genocide - Dejan Zec: Football in Occupied Serbia (1941–1944) - Thomas Urban: Football «Only for Germans», in the Underground and in Auschwitz: Championships in Occupied Poland - Martin Hoffmann: Football on the Front Line: The Silver Tassie, an Opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage - Markwart Herzog: Football as Politically Neutral Entertainment during the Nazi War: Content and Impact of Robert Adolf Stemmle’s Romantic Football Movie Das große Spiel - Jan Tilman Schwab: The Kiev Death Match: A Myth and Its Various Manifestations in Cinematic and Literary Works.