From PHARYNGULA:
I’m
sure this old newspaper clipping from 1934 has nothing to do with current events.
Nothing at all.
German
Football Club Banned For 12 Months.’
BERLIN
Sunday
The
Karlsruhe Football Club has been prohibited from playing during 1934 because
the team failed to give the Nazi salute when entering the field to play against
a French club from Nancy at Metz in December.
The
failure of the team to give the salute is alleged to be due to the Frenchmen
threatening that they would not play and the Germans would receive no
compensation if the salute was given because it was feared that the spectators
would riot.
All
sports clubs were forbidden to take part in French engagements until the
incident had been settled.