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Trautmann's Journey

From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend

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Trautmann's Journey

By: Catrine Clay
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
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Bert Trautmann is famed as the goalkeeper who broke his neck in an FA Cup final and played on. But his early life is no less extraordinary: he grew up in Nazi Germany and fought for the Germans in World War Two. In 1945 he was captured and sent to a British POW camp where, for the first time, he saw a better way of life. He embraced England as his new home and before long became an England football hero. This is his extraordinary story.

©2010 Catrine Clay (P)2011 Soundings
Europe Historical Military Politics & Government Sports Western Europe War England Holocaust
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This man’s story shows that war has no real victors. The courage of this man’s life is sad yet affirming

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