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Cricket, Hitler style.

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Cricket, Hitler style.

One chapter in the recently published book ‘Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century was Reported’, by John Simpson, drew the excited attention of journalists around the world. ‘Blue shirts and blitzkrieg? It’s just not cricket’ ran the headline from Ben McIntyre, in the Times Newspaper (18.03.10). Simpson refers in his book, to an incident reported [...]

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Bert Trautmann: From Iron Cross to OBE

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Bert Trautmann: From Iron Cross to OBE

Forget Sylvester Stallone’s dramatic penalty-saving antics in Escape to Victory, the most remarkable prisoner of war goalkeeper story belongs to former Manchester City stopper Bert Trautmann. German Trautmann’s incredible journey took him from Hitler Youth to Wembley, via the Eastern front and a spell in a north of England POW camp. Now aged 87, Trautmann [...]

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