Soccer Games During WWII

The soccer teams, each na- each nationality organized a soccer team,

and we all organized our equipment and everything and play soccer on the

assembly line. That was 1944. This, the

Russians already pushed away, Americans already invaded

from the other side, so they, they have to give more freedom.

But that was much more l- freedom and, uh, and, uh,

food didn't improve very much because, uh,

uh, well, simple reason, they didn't have it very much themselves,

so.

The SS didn't know that. They knew it, but they didn't do much about it

because they knew the war was almost over, so they didn't, uh ...

They even played soccer with us.

That, uh,

one time the Polish team play against German teams, and one of

the s- enlisted, top enlisted SS men

decided he wants to play for the Polish team.

So, uh,

we say, "Okay, you can play for us." And then the commandant, the,

the commandant, uh, the SS commandant, he was, uh,

like a, like a, a captain. You know?

He decided to want to play for the German team.

So he went in the field. I think they were a little bit tipsy, you know-