The second half of the movie takes place in the Berlin sector Friedrichshain, where Horst Wessel was killed. After his death it was renamed in "Horst-Wessel-Stadt".
The song that is played by Hans Westmar's marching band is called "Herbei zum Kampf", which is based on the soviet tune "Aviamarch", written by Yuli Hait. The Nazi version was released a few years later. Earlier the tune was used by the German communists as "Rote Flieger".
Based on the life of SA storm trouper Horst Wessel, who was killed by members of the Communist party in 1930. Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels didn't allow to use the name of the actual person, because Wessel would have been portrayed in the christian and procurer milieu. Wessel's mother Margarete Wessel tried to avoid the premiere of this movie and even wrote Adolf Hitler personally that he should ban it because it would make defilement of her son.
The films full title is "Hans Westmar. Einer von vielen. Ein deutsches Schicksal aus dem Jahre 1929" - "Hans Westmar. One of many. A German Fate from the Year 1929" and is the last of an unofficial trilogy of films produced by the NAZI party.
Final film of Carla Bartheel.
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