in aid of war charities. Football for morale Football was seen as a morale booster during the horrors of World War II, for both soldiers and civilians. Tom Finney captained Army football teams, and organised friendly matches in Austria and Egypt. Effects on footballers Soldiers Some players, such as Norman Corbett, have expressed the opinion that the War ruined their careers. Many German players, drafted into the Wehrmacht, saw their careers shortened or interrupted. Fritz Walter, captain of the 1954 World Cup-winning team of Germany who made his debut for the country during the war in 1940, missed many years of his career due to serving in the military from 1942 and spending time as a POW after the war. Fritz Walter served as a paratrooper and also spent time in a Soviet labour camp. Many German football clubs suffered heavy casualties from Hitler's war. An amateur club like SVO Germaringen saw ten of its eleven players that had won a local youth championship in 1940 not return from the battle fields. TSV 1860 Rosenheim had 170 of its club members drafted into military service, of those, 44 were killed in action and another 15 are missing. Those that did return found the clubs facilities completely destroyed by air raids on the town in October 1944 and April 1945. Rosenheim was on an important rail- and road intersection. The Holocaust A number of Jewish footballers were murdered during the Holocaust, and the Jewish association football scene, once very prominent and influential in international football, was destroyed. The Hungarian Jewish international footballer József Braun was murdered in a Nazi labor camp in 1943, and the Hungarian football manager Árpád Weisz was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. Henrik Nádler was murdered in Buchenwald concentration camp. Julius Hirsch, the first Jewish player to represent the German national team, was murdered at Auschwitz, being legally declared dead in May 1945. Hirsch had served for four years in the German Army in the First World War, had been decorated with the Iron Cross and was a German patriot, unable and unwilling to believe that his life could be at risk. However, some people also survived the concentration camps. Leo Goldstein survived the camps to become a FIFA international referee. Goldstein is also a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Hungarian coach Alfréd Schaffer was interned at Dachau, and was liberated by the Allies.