Das Jahr der Skandale - 1971

Our country in the 70s – Season 1

As recently as that winter, soccer fans in the Bundesliga stadiums of West Germany were watching what they thought were completely fair and above-board games—or so they believed. But in 1971, the bombshell dropped: The Bundesliga scandal involving a large number of fixed games sowed mistrust. In the second episode of its new ten-part documentary series, WDR shows how scandals shook the country and how our nation emerged stronger as a result.