Not as regards the team and the coach, that would not come until the 1970s, when political writers discovered football as a topic and argued that Herberger mirrored Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in his paternal conservatism and that the players were subservient yes-men. (Werner Liebrich, for one, would not have appreciated this characterisation, since his family was considered politically untrustworthy by the Nazis and his father had twice been imprisoned in a concentration camp.) Besides, they claimed, Germany had only won the match with a lot of luck. All of which was somehow true, and yet not
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