What sports were played in the concentration camps?

Answer 1

I'm not sure of your questions...if you mean sports that were being played around the world while the Holocaust was going on, then that was in the early 1940's, so you got most of the olympic sports (not new inclusions like sand v-ball), Baseball/football/soccer...pretty much all the same ones today unless they were invented in the last 60 years.

Answer 2

In the various concentration camps, there were an array of sports, encouraged by the SS officers, including football, handball, volleyball and even boxing.

It was important that the prisoners were kept fit and healthy, so their work would be useful to the Nazis. And of course, this form of recreation can be seen from the prisoners' point of view as a welcoming break from the rigours and mundane work that they were subjected to on a daily basis.

It wasn't just sport though, there were organised film screenings in Buchenwald, a brothel was established in Mauthausen, before later opening in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Secret libraries also existed. As a result, there was always a desire for culture and entertainment, which was epitomised in the clandestine theatrical performances of cabaret, which I find most interesting!

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Most of that is untrue.

There were films made by the Nazis featuring activities where they made the inmates play roles, this was to show the world that such activities were taking place, but they were not real.

Some recreational activity existed in the first few years of the camps, before they were designed to maximise the labour output, when the inmates consited of criminals, politcal prisoners and enemies of the state (ie. religious and intelligencia), years before the Holocaust.

Answer 3

they didnt play sports they played table games