Pour le Mérite (1938) Online
This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
 | Paul Hartmann | - | Rittmeister Prank |
 | Herbert A.E. Böhme | - | Gerdes |
 | Albert Hehn | - | Lt. Fabian |
 | Paul Otto | - | Maj. Wissmann |
 | Fritz Kampers | - | Moebius |
 | Josef Dahmen | - | Zuschlag |
| Willi Rose | - | Krause |
 | Carsta Löck | - | Gerda Fabian |
 | Jutta Freybe | - | Isabel Prank |
| Gisela von Collande | - | Anna Moebius |
| Käte Kühl | - | Barsängerin |
 | Marina von Ditmar | - | Junge Französin |
| Otz Tollen | - | Capt. Reinwald |
 | Wolfgang Staudte | - | Lt. Ellermann |
| Clemens Hasse | - | Ulan |
During the filming, one of the Pilots, named Horst Selter, one of the actual Pilots used from the Luftwaffe was killed during the filming by plane crash. The broken propeller exists also. His brother Rolf was also a Luftwaffe Pilot, he was a Staffel-Fuhrer (Squadron Commander) in Kampfgeschwader "Boelke", shot down and killed over Tarnopol, Ukraine, on March 30, 1944, while flying an Me 110 bomber.