Tag Archives: Schalke 04

The Bundesliga returns this weekend with Borussia Dortmund playing host to Schalke in the Revierderby at the Signal Iduna Park. Normally, around 80,000 screaming fans would be in attendance for one of Germany’s fiercest rivalries, but to the recent Covid-19 pandemic all matches will be played behind closed doors until further notice. When the Bundesliga was postponed, Borussia Dortmund occupied ...

Germany lost 2-0 against Norway in the second round of the 1936 Berlin Olympics and that too in presence of Adolf Hitler. It was a major blow to the ego and prestige of the Nazis and immense embarrassment for the regime looking to use football as their propaganda tool. Nazi philosophy believed in the superiority of the Aryan race including ...