The traveling exhibition “SPORTS. CROWDS. POWER. Football under National Socialism” uses the broad social reach of football to strengthen historical awareness and encourage engagement with antisemitism, racism, and exclusion in sport.
Football is more than just a sport. It creates community, shapes social spaces, and reflects power structures. At the same time, sport can unite people — but it can also exclude them. The exhibition by what matters demonstrates how closely sport and politics were intertwined under National Socialism and how football was instrumentalized for propaganda, social control, and ideological exclusion. Its aim is to convey the history of sport during the Nazi era in the places where sport is lived and experienced today: in stadiums, on playing fields, in schools, and in sports clubs.
The Alfred Landecker Foundation supports the traveling exhibition developed by what matters.
