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‘He refused to return to his country.’ The escape of soccer players from the People’s Republic of Poland to the Federal Republic of Germany – The migration of Polish athletes before 1945 and after 1989 has already been discussed extensively...

This article deals with a topic in German-French sports and military history that has been neglected by historians to date: On 5 August 1942, members of the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans – Main d’Œuvre Immigrée, FTP-MOI), a subgroup of the...

Postcards of football stadiums go back more than a hundred years. In France, the stadium owned by the newspaper Le Matin was the subject of cards as early as 1910, when it was flooded by the Seine. In Germany, the inauguration of Deutsches Stadion...

One of the first lasting official acts of the Reich Sports Leader, Hans von Tschammer und Osten, was the establishment of the Hilfsfonds für den Deutschen Sport in October 1933. This institution, which was renamed Stiftung Deutsche Sporthilfe...

The German Zionist and sports physician Emanuel Simon was one of the central figures for sport in British Mandate Palestine and Israel from the 1920s to the 1950s. In this article, we provide a sketch of his biography and discuss his significance in...

Winter of War 1942: The World Ski Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo and the Winter Sports Week in Garmisch-Partenkirchen – In February 1941, despite Italy’s critical military situation in the Balkans, official Alpine and Nordic World Ski...