The forgotten football history of the forced laborers in Berlin!
The forgotten football history of the forced laborers in Berlin!
In the middle of the dreary weather chaos shortly before Christmas, the dark past of a soccer field is awakened in Berlin. Where the forced laborers once had to live, which lived in a camp of the Treptower gymnastics club between 1942 and 1945 under inhumane conditions, a project has now been launched that puts the history of forced labor for the foreground. The area was a little more than two soccer fields, which served up to 1,200 forced laborers as living space while they had to work for the war industry. Daniela Geppert, head of the educational department of the Documentation Center Nazi compulsory work, said that the German war economy could not be continued without these people. Details about the living conditions today and on the history of forced labor can be found on the interactive website jubel-unrecht.de, which documents football sites and their connection to forced labor, such as rbb24 reported
The dark role of football
At the same time, it can be seen that famous places such as the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg and the “An der Sandscholle” sports field are also connected to the history of National Socialism. Around 200 Italian forced laborers and also on the sports field in Potsdam, which is now used by the youth teams of SV Babelsberg 03, lived in the Volksparkstadion between 1943 and 1945. Christian Raschke, a volunteer of SV Babelsberg 03, is actively involved in working up the story and drawing attention. The tragic context of these places is hidden in the joy of sport, while there was an surrounding of violence and abuse, which describes Daniela Geppert urgently.The project, initiated by historians and memorials, aims to sensitize young football fans to these dark chapters of history and to connect them to these places via the interactive map. Historical information is conveyed through sporting enthusiasm, which is an effective approach to achieve a wider audience. In a personal report by the former forced laborer Theodor Wonja Michael, who experienced the brutal conditions in the labor camp as Afro-German, it is obvious how serious time was. His horizon of experience and the reflection on the difficult heir that surrounds football and the stages can also be read to the many who suffered from the Nazi regime, as well as to Forced Lager-berlin-1945.de
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