World War II in Pictures- A football match between a POW Soviet team, “FC Start”, and a team of Luftwaffe members, “Flakelf”.

The match was played on August 9th, 1942, and was refereed by a SS soldier. The Soviet team pulled off a 5-3 win. A number of the FC Start players were arrested and tortured by the Gestapo for being NKVD members. Mykola Korotkykh died under torture. The rest were sent to the Syrets labour camp, where Ivan Kuzmenko, Oleksey Klimenko and the goalkeeper Mykola Trusevich were killed in February 1943.