Football and Haman's Gallows?

This evening the Euro 2008 Football Championship will take place at Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna between Germany and Spain. (For those Americans who are woefully illiterate, "soccer," is what the rest of the world refers to as "football," which is much more appropriate nomenclature, since in this sport the players actually use their feet, unlike American "football"). Yet, this stadium does not have such an honorable past. Nearly sixty-nine years ago, in September of 1939, the Gestapo imprisoned over 1,000 Jewish men in the stadium, in order to conduct racist anthropological studies on them. Of the over 1,000 men imprisoned in the stadium, only 26 survived the war; most of the prisoners were sent to Buchenwald, where they were eventually murdered by the Nazis. This horrific incident was only the beginning to the Nazi genocide of the Jewish people, in which they murdered 6 million Jews. Despite Hitler's attempt to annihilate the Jews, his Third Reich crumbled and he died the death of a coward when he killed himself in his bunker under Berlin.
The Jewish people survived the war, including my grandparents, who were both interned in Auschwitz, but the Nazi regime suffered the fate of every other nation that has risen up against Israel. Pharaoh, Babylon, Assyria, Rome, Antiochus IV and Nazi Germany have all attacked us, but only we have survived and they are forgotten, except in the annals of history. During the Persian period, Haman decided that he would destroy the Jewish people and erected gallows, in which he intended to execute his adversary, Mordechai. In the end, it was not Mordecai, but Haman, who lost his life in his own gallows.
Will Ernst Happel Stadium serve the same function for Germany as Haman's gallows did for Haman about 2500 years ago? While I don't have a habit of rooting for Spain, tonight I will be eating tapas and cheering on Spain in hopes of seeing Germany ironically suffering defeat in the same stadium the Nazis used nearly sixty-nine years ago for their racist experimentation. Although I don't think God gets involved in the outcome of sporting events (the Dodger's 20 year draught is evidence enough), I think that it would be poetic justice to see Germany lose tonight; therefore, I am rooting with the Murphy's for a Spanish victory. 

*If you are interested in this period of history pick up Gershon Evan. Winds of Life: The Destinies of a Young Viennese Jew 1938-1958. CA: Ariadne Press, 1999.