Lufttwaffensportverein Danzig was a short-lived German association football club

Football in Germany

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 from the city of Danzig, West Prussia

West Prussia

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 (today Gdańsk

Gdansk

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, Poland

Poland

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). LSV was an air force (Luftwaffe

Luftwaffe

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) sports club that was active from 1941-44 and was made up primarily of flak soldiers. During World War II

World War II

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 it was common in Germany for military sides to take part in domestic competition. The most successful of these clubs was LSV Hamburg which appeared in the final of the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's German Cup

DFB-Pokal

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, in 1943 and in the national championship final in 1944.

LSV Danzig won a promotion round playoff at the end of the 1941-42 season to advance to the first division Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen

Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen

The Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen was the highest football league in the former Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia , a Nazi administrative unit established partly from German and partly from annexed territory.-Overview:...

 where they captured the title in 1944. That earned the club a place in the opening round of the national playoffs where they played Hertha BSC Berlin

Hertha BSC Berlin

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to a scoreless draw before losing the rematch 1-7. The Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen collapsed in September 1944 in the latter stages of the war with the club disappearing at the same time.

During the war, LSV made use of the facilites of Gedania Danzig

Gedania Danzig

KS Gedania Danzig was an ethnically-Polish association football club that was part of German football competition in the inter-war period. It was formed in 1922 in what was at the time the Free City of Danzig...

, an ethnically-Polish club that was banned for political reasons by the Nazis in 1938.