the last team to win the viktoria was dresdner sc, who beat the air-force club luftwaffen sv hamburg in berlin's olympiastadion 4–0 to end the 1943–44 competition. in the confusion at the end of world war ii, the trophy disappeared. it was re-discovered decades later in an east german bank safe-deposit box where it had been placed by a dresden supporter for safekeeping. it has since been returned to the dfb. in the meantime, a new championship trophy, the "meisterschale" ("championship plate"), sometimes nicknamed "die salatschüssel" (the salad bowl), was created in 1949.