A team of Ukrainian bakers defeated that of the SS. “You can’t win,” the Germans told their rivals at half-time. Who instead beat them 5-3. Then ending up in concentration camps accused of being Russian spies
The SS entered the locker room at half-time. “We are deeply impressed. But you have to understand that you cannot win.” In front of them, 11 servants of a bread factory. Malnourished. Out of shape. With battered uniforms. Yet they were humiliating an invincible team, at least according to Nazi propaganda. Certainly the best possible national team in Germany at that time, called by the regime to extinguish the hope of a people who had lost everything, starting with their own city, Kiev, invaded and conquered by Adolf Hitler’s army, certain of immediate surrender. .