LUFT008 The Footballer (Fritz Walter)

LUFT008 The Footballer: Fritz Walter played 61 caps for Germany during his football career, a career which was somewhat rudely interrupted by WW2! He was fortunate to be drafted into a Luftwaffe unit ‘Rote Jager’ under coach Herberger, a unit designed to keep men like Walter out of danger. Walter was captured by the Russians at the end of the war but managed to escape a long term prison sentence. He went back to Germany and captained the team that won Germany’s first football World Cup in 1954. Limited to 100 in number