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S.A.-Mann Brand
S.A.-Mann Brand (Storm Trooper Brand) is a German film made around the time that Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. It was released in mid-June 1933.
The film presents the story of a truck driver, Fritz Brand, who joins the Nazi "Sturmabteilung" to defend Germany against communist subversion orchestrated from Moscow. He persuades his social circle of the imminent danger and the need to support Hitler in the federal election.
A review in the "New York Times" noted favorably the film
juvenile member of the Hitler Youth who selflessly sacrifices himself at film's end to save a comrade. Like many Nazi propaganda films of the period, "S.A.-Mann Brand" was banned from viewing for many years following World War II. "S.A.-Mann Brand" was his last film.
Death.
After the outbreak of World War II, Wenkhaus enlisted in the military. At the time of his death he was in the aircrew of a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, a four-engine bomber that specialized in attacks