We miss sports and we don’t care who knows. So we’re throwing it back to two inspiring sports history stories from WWII: The Unofficial 1944 POW Summer Olympics and The Death Match, which, unsurprisingly, is soccer-related.
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1944 Woldenberg Olympic Flag
1944 Woldenberg Olympic Stamp
1942 Death Match
1942 Death Match Starting Line Up
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Sources for the POW Olympics Story: Mental Floss, History Channel, wiki
Sources for Death Match story: New York Times, Bleacher Report, Wikipedia
Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
About this podcast:
Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.