Match of Inhumanity
Today in 1944 football was played in the concentration camp Tezerin. What does this propaganda footage tell us about the Holocaust?
My boyfriend, my husband, and my lover
Football was never a boys’ club: the story of a trailblazing woman in the stands.
Disappearing from football and the world
Analyse and connect historical sources to learn about Italian fascism and the history of Europe in late 1930s – early 1940s.
Referee in the Resistance
Dutch football referee Leo Horn, born in 1916, was a resistance fighter during the Second World War, all the while hiding his Jewish identity.
Basque in the USSR
A story of a Spanish footballer turned Communist leader, where football and history intertwine across borders.
Nationalism in Spanish Football in the 20th Century
A lesson plan putting the Spanish Civil War and football in perspective.
Milutin Ivkovic: World Cup to World War
Captain of Yugoslavia, a qualified doctor, killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
Boško Petrović: From Football to Freedom?
Left the football pitch behind to fight for ideology in the sky.
Brunilde Amodeo: Woman against Fascism
Captain of a pioneering Italian football team in 1933.
Otto Fritz ‘Tull’ Harder: From German hero to Nazi war criminal
Player who commanded Hannover-Ahlem, a Nazi concentration camp.
