[4] Like many Nazi propaganda films of the period, S.A.-Mann Brand was banned from viewing for many years following World War II.
At the time of his death, aged 24, he was in the aircrew of a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, a four-engine bomber that specialized in attacks on shipping.
Wenkhaus's plane, with identification code F8 MH 0093, was shot down on 31 January 1942, off the coast of Bloody Foreland in County Donegal, Ireland by HMS Genista, a British Flower-class corvette being utilized as a convoy escort vessel.
The body of the pilot, Werner Bornefeld, washed up at Bunbeg two weeks later, and was eventually reburied at a German War Cemetery at Glencree, Ireland.
[5] Wenkhaus would be one of three young actors from Emil and the Detectives to be killed while serving in the military in World War II.