“Behind my back, between one corner kick and the next, they had gassed three thousand people”: football in the Auschwitz concentration camp
The article analyzes the phenomenon of football in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945. Auschwitz was by no means the only concentration camp where football matches and even entire tournaments were held—other camps such as Buchenwald, Theresienstadt, and Gross-Rosen had their own ...
Episodes of the Klaipeda/Memel Anschluss in March, 1939
... established by the Treaty of Versailles, propagate national socialist ideas among the population, and spread a positive attitude to the restoration of the region as a part of the German Reich. The author offers a detailed analysis of the actions of the Nazi and paramilitary groups during the Anschluss in March 22—25, 1939. An examination of the events clearly demonstrates that the German party had a well-devised plan of Anschluss, while the population had been ideologically indoctrinated and was ready ...