Nazi soccer team urged to use 'blitzkrieg' tactics and accused of being 'too Jewish'

A crazy plan to make German footballers in World War Two play a 'Blitzkrieg' game that copied the tactics of battlefield warriors has been found in a German archive.

Devoted Nazi Karl Oberhuber accused the national team trainer Sepp Herberger - the coach for 28 years who led postwar West Germany to its first World Cup win in 1954 - of being 'too Jewish' in his training methods.

In 1940, when the Nazi armies overran France, Belgium and Holland with lightning war tactics, Oberhuber was chief adjutant to the Nazi gauleiter of Bavaria and in charge of sport in the state.

This made him a powerful and dangerous man to have as an enemy....