Hans Zöberlein
Writing
Biography
Hans Zöberlein was a National Socialist German writer and SA brigade leader. He was later sentenced to death for multiple murders shortly before the end of the Second World War, but the sentence was not carried out.
Known For
This powerful anti-war film statement focuses on the plight of a German unit in World War I that finds itself surrounded by British and French forces.
Shock Troop
This Nazi propaganda film tells about the "freikorps" movement in post-World War I Germany. Freikorps were armed extreme-right-wing paramilitary groups, often composed of street thugs, ex-convicts and unemployed veterans, who engaged in street battles and assassinations of political opponents, usually leftist or Communist groups. Many of these "freikorps" were absorbed into the S.A. (Storm Troopers) and, later, the SS after Adolf Hitler came to power