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Lädt ... Trautmanns Weg: Vom Hitlerjungen zur englischen Fußball-Legendevon Catrine Clay
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'He was the best goalkeeper I ever played against.' Bobby Charlton Every football fan knows the legend of Bert Trautmann. Fifteen minutes from the end of the 1956 FA Cup Final, Trautmann - the goalkeeper for Manchester City - falls spectacularly mid-tackle. He continues to play on to the end of the game, ensuring Manchester City win the cup. An X-ray later reveals a broken neck. But there is more to this legend than a plucky goalkeeper. Bert Trautmann was born Bernhardt Trautmann in Germany in 1923. Brought up in a country already in the grip of National Socialism, he joined the Hitler Youth at the age of ten and went to fight for the Vaterland when he was seventeen. Despite enduring inconceivable hardships in the name of war, Trautmann continued to believe wholeheartedly in the cause. Until one day he stumbled into enemy territory to be greeted by the words, 'Fancy a cup of tea, Fritz?' What follows is an extraordinary story of transformation. Bernhardt - a Nazi living in a POW camp in Cheshire - becomes Bert. From an amateur footballer working on a bomb disposal unit in Liverpool, to celebrated Manchester City goalkeeper adored by thousands, Catrine Clay charts Trautmann's conversion from Hitler Youth star to all-England football hero, mirroring Europe's own journey through the horrors of war to a fragile post-war peace. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The author has produced some documentaries for the BBC and that style is quite prevalent in this book. It doesn't delve too deeply on his life as a footballer, concentrating more on his formative years and what it was like for a fairly typical boy growing up in the times between the wars and during his life as a soldier. It doesn't gloss over the faults in his character and how his hot temper would often land him in serious trouble or how he left a woman carrying his child leaving only a letter saying that he couldn't marry her. They were later reconciled as he was with the daughter that she bore him. I've never been a keen student of history but I found this account fascinating and I learnt a lot about how life was in those days. It was also interesting to see things from a German's perspective. I wouldn't have minded a bit more detail on his actual playing career or his life after he finally hung up his gloves to be included but this is a book that I'm definitely glad I read. ( )