Tor!; the story of German football - Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger

As with the Spanish counterpart Morbo, I learned a fair bit of German history as a by-product of learning about its football culture. There’s a grim, inevitable fascination with the Nazi era material, and occasionally one winces with the incongruity of sentences along the lines of “In the same week that the Luftwaffe started bombing London, Schalke were playing away at Borussia Munchengladbach”.