All are warmly invited to join us for the the a special lecture by Dr Markwart Herzog from Deutsche Akademie für Fussballkultur. The lecture is titled ’The Visualisation and Ritualisation of Football under National Socialism’  and will take place    on Friday 21 November 2014, at 4.30pm, in the Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John’s College, Cambridge.   It is often assumed that sport under National Socialism was subject to drastic Gleichschaltung. But this is only true in part, and the country's most popular sport - football - provides a perfect example of the tensions between ideology and practice. Setting developments against the broader history of football in Germany, this paper will outline some of the National Socialists' key plans and achievements in football as well as the spaces in which less stringent views could be expressed.

Dr Markwart Herzog is Director of the Schwabenakademie Irsee and author of numerous books on the history of German sport.