Initially, and since he was barely 17 years old, the young Tull Harder was only called up to play friendly matches with the Eintracht Braunschweig reserve team, which made him nervous, although this situation would not last long, since his quality and his tremendous physique ended up prevailing and he managed to make a career, as they say.
[6] Following his football career, Harder ran an insurance agency, and in October 1932, he became a member of the NSDAP, before joining the SS in May 1933.
In August 1939, he was drafted into the Waffen-SS, and served shortly at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, then at Neuengamme in Hamburg by the end of that year.
According to The Times, Nijland was captured after his resistance cell raided the De Nederlandsche Bank which was run by a Dutch Nazi and collaborator.
Sent to Harder's camp at Ahlem, Nijland was a forced labourer alongside Jewish slave workers.
[4] The Hamburger SV published an obituary Er war (...) stets ein guter Freund und treuer Kamerad.
Fußballweltmeisterschaft, which praised among others Josef Posipal, Uwe Seeler and Harder as role models for the young.
Then he took his measurements again and while the opposing goalkeeper stood there, pale and helpless, knowing that he could not do anything to stop the shot that was coming.
[1] Despite being the height he was in 1918 (1.90m) Harder was quick on his heels, out-pacing defenders and leaving him through on goal, scoring regularly.