 The imminent collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945 gravely affected the "Gauligas" and the league's last season 1944–45, played with ten teams, was not completed.After nine of eighteen rounds, the competition was halted on 11 March 1945.The clubs from former Austria had considerable success on national German level, with Rapid Wien in 1941 becoming the only club from outside of the current borders of the Federal Republic of Germany to claim the German national title.