The coach of the German national team that defeated the Golden Team in 1954 could have been a zealous Nazi.

Sepp Herberger, the German national football team's coach, was revealed to have been a committed Nazi, contradicting his previous claims of joining the party for career reasons. Newly accessible Nazi party documents indicate that he was a member of the NSDAP since 1933, despite asserting post-war that he voted for the Social Democrats. This revelation is part of a broader trend as more figures from post-WWII Germany are found to have deeper ties to the Nazi regime than previously acknowledged. The opening of these archives has sparked discussions about the implications for historical accountability in Germany and beyond.