Dec 22, 1938
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Pour le Mérite (1938)

This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.

Category

War

Country

Germany

Companies

UFA

Paul Hartmann

Rittmeister Prank

Herbert A. E. Böhme

Oberleutnant Gerdes

Albert Hehn

Lt. Fabian

Fritz Kampers

Moebius

Josef Dahmen

Unteroffizier Zuschlag

Willi Rose

Gefreiter Krause

Carsta Löck

Gerda

Jutta Freybe

Isabel Prank

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