Nazi Death Match: Remembering Kiev’s Fallen Heroes

74 Years ago, a team mainly consisting of players from Dynamo and a few from Lokomotiv Kyiv, played a game of football against the German Luftwaffe in Nazi occupied Ukraine. The match has since then cemented its place in the annals of history, albeit, amid much debate and dissension.

It is difficult to provide a definitive version of what exactly happened in the ‘Death Match’, given the nature of the circumstances and the contradicting stories inculcated as propaganda by both the Soviets and the Nazis.

What we need to understand is that mankind has always had, and always will have, a vested interest in war and catastrophe. We revel in stories like the Death Match which is why the version…