Westmar decides to help organize the local Nazi Party and becomes, through the course of the plot, responsible for its electoral victories, which encourages the Communists to kill him.

The recently established Volksdeutsche Filmgesellschaft produced the film based on Hanns Heinz Ewers' novelistic biography of Horst Wessel.

[1] It was among the first films to depict dying for Hitler as a glorious death for Germany and as resulting in his spirit inspiring his comrades.

[4][5] Along with SA-Mann and Hitlerjunge Quex, Hans Westmar was the last of the trilogy of films released in 1933, and designed to present an idealized account of the Nazis' 'heroic struggle' to come to power in Germany.

[6] Hans Westmar was shown to a group of Nazi leaders, including Hermann Göring, on 3 October 1933.

[11] Part of the problem was that authentic depiction of Stormtroopers, including picking fights with Communists, did not fit the more reasonable tone that the Nazis adopted in power and would undermine Volksgemeinschaft.