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His Own Man
Otto Peltzer: Champion Athlete, Nazi Victim, Indian Hero
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His Own Man
Otto Peltzer: Champion Athlete, Nazi Victim, Indian Hero
About this book
Born with the 20th century, Otto Peltzer overcame a lonely childhood, beset by illness, to gain a doctorate in sociology and multiple world records on the running track. He competed in two Olympics, but his outspokenness made him persona non grata to the Nazis. His homosexuality was the pretext for a trial which resulted in his being sent for "re-education" to Mauthausen concentration camp. After the war, having survived four years of brutal treatment and lost his home and family to the Red Army, Peltzer was blocked from competing or coaching by his "denazified" pre-war enemies. He found salvation in India, where, as national coach and trainer of street-children, he became loved and respected, before dying in 1970 of heart disease caused by his camp experience.
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Historical BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Peter Lovesey
- Mauthausen KZ, Austria, 11 April 1941
- Father to the Man
- The Patriot
- The Runner
- The Student
- Otto the Strange
- Sportkanone
- Lunch With Nurmi
- Triumph At Stamford Bridge
- Apotheosis In Berlin
- The Schoolmaster
- World Master
- New Worlds
- Accident At Neustadt
- Asian Adventures
- Down Under
- Preparing Los Angeles
- Olympic Frustration
- Persona Non Grata
- Rutilus rutilus
- ‘Expert Spectator’
- The Exile
- Abandon Hope
- Liberation
- Unwanted
- The Man Who Conquered India
- Who Was Otto Peltzer?
- Otto Peltzer Career Statistics
- Bibliography
- Index
- Photographs