Two behind–the–scenes photographs taken by the Tobis film studio press office during the production of Hans Bertram's Kampfgeschwader Lützow. All exterior shots in the film were shot in the General Gouvernement.

The first photo below shows General of the Flyers Karl–Frederick Schweickhard looking at the film monitor whilst Director (and famous aviator) Hans Bertram (in sunglasses and cap) looks on. The photo caption reads: General der Flieger Schweickhard – the military council of the new Hans Bertram film of Tobis, "Kampfgeschwader Lützow."

The second photo shows three Luftwaffe officers and Bertram in discussion. The caption reads that Bertram "is discussing the important scenes in the script" with them.

Here is a contemporary newspaper full–page ad in the Tobis Filmkunst publication promoting the film:

Here is newspaper photo of  Dr. Heinkel congratulating Hans Bertram, at the premiere of the film (right.)

Our book library contains an autographed  copy of Bertram's best–seller Flug in die Hölle (Flight into Hell) from 1933, in which he inscribes the book to a man "in memory of Kampfgeschwader Lützow" in 1940, during the film's production. The book told the amazing story of the survival of Bertram and his navigator in a two-seater Junkers bi-plane after the plane crashed on the barren northern coast of Australia during an around the–world flight in 1932. The two men were found and saved by Aborigines after two weeks of near–starvation, brought to a clinic many hundreds of miles into the Outback and after having disappeared from the world press for six weeks, surfaced in Melbourne before their return to Germany. Their story made the front page of the New York Times: