[source of facts (in German) here]
7 April 1892 Julius Hirsch born in Achern, Baden
1902-1933 member of Karlsruhe football club
1910 plays for the Karlsruhe side which wins the national championship
1911-13 plays for Germany
1912 member of the German team at the Stockholm Olympics
1914 plays for German champions Fürth
1914-18 serves in the German army
1933 Hirsch's membership of Karlsruhe football club is terminated in conformity with Nazi racial laws - he is Jewish
March 1943 murdered at Auschwitz
1999 the DFB (German FA) finally restores Hirsch to its roll of capped players, from which his name had been removed under the Nazis
21 January 2007 a sports stadium in Berlin is renamed the Julius Hirsch Stadium in a ceremony attended by Hirsch's grandson
26 January 2007 the UN General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning Holocaust denial. Iran rejects the resolution.
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