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.
Fritz Löhner-Beda: Zionism, Football, Vienna
Cultural soul in pre-war Vienna, killed in the Holocaust.
Milutin Ivkovic: World Cup to World War
Captain of Yugoslavia, a qualified doctor, killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
Romualdas Marcinkus: Flying for Lithuania
Baltic views on WWII through the eyes of a young player turned pilot.
Boško Petrović: From Football to Freedom?
Left the football pitch behind to fight for ideology in the sky.
Otto Fritz ‘Tull’ Harder: From German hero to Nazi war criminal
Player who commanded Hannover-Ahlem, a Nazi concentration camp.
Hans Lorenzen: Inventing football for the blind
Creating opportunities for blind people to enjoy football.
Ernest Wilmowski: A problem of identity
A German-Polish star in the Polish team, and then a player for the Third Reich.
Ernst Happel: Total Football Lives On
The European coach from Austria who built bridges.
Violette Morris: Heroine, Sportswoman, Collaborator
She challenged cultural norms, but was killed a collaborator in war-torn France.
