Bican proti Hitlerovi - Fotbal v Protektorátu Čechy a Morava – Zikmund Zdeněk (2020)

The book offers a very detailed look at the most popular sport during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The author draws on thorough and meticulous research, providing previously unknown information and supplementing the text with a number of documentary period photographs. The book will appeal not only to football fans but also to those interested in history, particularly the society of the Protectorate. The main thematic chapters analyze the relationship between the Reich and Protectorate authorities towards football, noting the differences in the approaches of the Reich Sports Leader's Office in Berlin and the Reich Protector's Office in Prague. They explain the attitudes of Nazi leaders (Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Reinhard Heydrich) towards sports, especially football. The book examines the impacts of racial legislation, highlights instances of activism, informants, and collaboration, as well as resistance, rebellion, and defiance within the football environment. It presents stories of players and officials executed for their resistance activities, tortured in concentration camps, or who perished on the front lines. It details both voluntary and coerced expressions of loyalty to the Reich (Aryan salute, Führer principle, manifestations of loyalty) in Protectorate football. For the first time, it makes facts from the Protectorate and post-war period accessible...