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About the German Football Archive The DFA documents German football history dating back to the first Bundesliga matchday in 1963. The media archive currently holds more than 33,000 recorded matches, and over 160,000 hours of video content, having quadrupled in size since its launch in 2011. An additional 11,000 hours of footage is added to the ...
Feb 18, 2001 · The German football federation, which for years has attempted to whitewash its close relationship with the Nazis, has finally bowed to intense pressure to open its archives to historians.
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26 February 2018 – At the beginning, there was just a thrilling idea. Now, 55 years after the first-ever Bundesliga matchday in 1963, the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga and its clubs, media partners, licensees, and other stakeholders are already used to benefitting from what has turned out to be a quickly-growing modern masterpiece: the German Football Archive (DFA).
Feb 16, 2004 · The German Football Federation, which for years has attempted to white-wash its close relationship with the Nazis, has finally bowed to intense pressure to open its archives to historians. German historians have already begun to chronicle the darkest chapter in the sport’s history that began when it was `taken over’ by the Nazi Party in 1933.
Sep 14, 2005 · 9-14-05. Book probes Nazi past of German soccer federation. It has taken 60 years for Germany's soccer federation to face up to a dark period in its history when it collaborated with the Nazis. A ...
Apr 23, 2018 · Fußball is the most popular sport in Germany. The reasons for this extraordinary status and success of association football in Germany are complex. In this article, answers are searched for in the context of the historical development of German society. After a review of the recent development of German football and football historiography, the paper focuses on two issues relating to the ...
football history itself has become a market that is served by various stakehold ers, such as clubs, companies, and the media. Keywords: German football, German unity, GDR, FRG, transformation, collec tive memory, World Cup, public history, culture of remembrance, biography. 1. Introduction Football history in the last quarter of a century in ...
