“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 ...