Ewald von Demandowsky

Already a member of the Nazi Party in 1930, he gained employment as a cultural-political editor of the Völkischer Beobachter newspaper.

In 1937 he was appointed Reichsfilmdramaturg subordinate to the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and served to abort unwanted filming projects at the behest of Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels.

He produced a number of notorious Nazi propaganda films, including Ohm Krüger and Ich klage an.

[1] Demandowsky had a love affair with rising star Hildegard Knef in the latter part of World War II.

Demandowsky was tried on charges of Fascist war propaganda and sentenced to death by a Soviet Military Tribunal and shot on 7 October 1946 in Berlin-Lichtenberg.