| Abstrakt: |
By examining the life and times of Lilli Henoch and Martha Jacob, multiple aspects of German sports history in the period before and after 1933 are brought to light. This paper begins with an outline of the early development in women's track and field disciplines in Germany from the 1920s. It then examines the history of the German Jewish sports movement in, specifically, 1933, a watershed year with the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of the Reich. Soon thereafter, many sports associations and clubs started to exclude their Jewish members who, by necessity, either found new homes in the Jewish sports associations or emigrated, while many others became victims of the Holocaust. Lastly, an evaluation of the politics-of-memory of post-war German sports associations from 1945 is presented by way of example of the treatment by their sports clubs of Lilli Henoch and Martha Jacob. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
