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Hans Westmar: Directed by Franz Wenzler. With Emil Lohkamp, Paul Wegener, Heinrich Heilinger, Irmgard Willers. Student Hans is so appalled by decadent Berlin and the schemes of the Communist Party that he inspires the Nazi cohorts of his fellow storm troopers to actively fight the Communists who in turn conspire to assassinate him.
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- Biography
- Franz Wenzler
- 1938
Hans Westmar (full title: Hans Westmar. Einer von vielen. Ein deutsches Schicksal aus dem Jahre 1929 "Hans Westmar. One of many. A German Fate from the Year 1929") was the last of an unofficial trilogy of films produced by the Nazis shortly after coming to power in January 1933, celebrating their Kampfzeit – the history of their period in opposition, struggling to gain power.
Hans Westmar. Hans Westmar (Original Title) This film purports to show the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--who took part in street brawls and assassinations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s against Communists and other opponents, and was killed by Communists not long before this film came out.
Hans Westmar (Franz Wenzler, 1933) centers on the martyr Horst Wessel (here named Hans Westman) and the Sturmabteilung's street fighting years. The film was part of an unofficial trilogy – together with Hitlerjunge Quex (1933) and S.A.-Mann Brand (1933) – and the three films all were made when the Nazi party was undergoing going from being in opposition to having power.
- Franz Wenzler
- Volksdeutsche Film
May 15, 2017 · It is 1929, and the fate of Germany lies in the streets of Berlin. Amidst violent demonstrations orchestrated by both extremist groups emerges a young SA hero named Hans Westmar in this heavily fictionalized biography of Horst Wessel, author of the Nazi anthem, "Die Fahne hoch" ("Raise the Banners High" or "The Horst Wessel Song").
Hans Westmar: One of the Many was one of the first films of the Nazi era to idealize a version of Wessel's life. [82] Goebbels, however, disliked the film, considering it to be crude in its use of propaganda, and on the day of its intended premiere issued a ban prohibiting it from being shown.
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This Nazi propaganda film purports to show the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel—here called “Hans Westmar”—who took part in street brawls and assassinations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s against Communists and other opponents of the Nazis.
