Language:
German
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Nurinst 2008
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2008) 49-62
Keywords:
Hirsch, Julius Juller
;
Jews Sports
;
Jews History 1933-1939
Abstract:
Discusses the role of German sports associations in the realization of the Nazi antisemitic program, focusing on the fate of the famous German Jewish sportsman Julius Hirsch, a member of the national soccer team between 1911-13. He was born in 1892 and killed in Auschwitz (date unknown). The integration of Jewish athletes into German sports came to an end in many parts of Germany already in 1933, when they were expelled from sports associations which rallied around Hitler's racist goals even as the Reichsportführer called for restraint in view of the Berlin Olympic games scheduled for 1936. Like many other Jewish sportsmen, Hirsch joined a Jewish sports association instead; having to earn a living in less suitable jobs, he fell into depression and attempted suicide in 1938. In 1942 he left his non-Jewish wife and children in order to protect them; he was deported to Auschwitz the following year. Concludes by emphasizing that German sports associations continued to suppress the memory of their Jewish star members until quite recently.
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