Sunday 22 January 2012

Auschwitz 2: The Soccer Pitch


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Compound B2F at Auschwitz-Birkenau contained
the Auschwitz football pitch at its south-end

Match cancelled due to frozen pitch at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Photo taken at the position marked "a" above


The Auschwitz soccer pitch is behind the fence, on the left of the "guard tower",
to the right of the "guard tower" was the gypsy camp

Photo taken at the position marked "b" above

4 comments:

  1. They had a few internationals played between POWs and even the SS guards fielded a team on occasions, probably between gassings as the tribe would say.

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  2. Great sharing, thank you so much.
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    Specifically winstonsmithministryoftruth
    I thought I'd just have a go at remarking that.

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  3. Never mind.
    Once I made the comment, it signed me in
    - which I wasn't prior to clicking the links

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  4. Great work! You've put a lot of time and effort in.

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