Lieutenant Sturm

Lieutenant Sturm was a minor villain in The Rat Patrol. He appeared in the episode The Kill at Koorlea Raid. He was played by series regular Manfred Lating.

Biography
Sturm was an Afrika Korps officer serving under Captain Hans Dietrich. Like Dietrich, he had a low opinion of General Karl Koenig, viewing his conduct (which included torturing and executing prisoners) as dishonorable. After Koenig had a group of Allied soldiers hung out on tree branches overnight, they died of exposure, and Dietrich told Sturm to give them a proper burial.

As they were taking Koenig to meet his wife and children at Koorlea, a scout plane spotted the Rat Patrol nearby and Dietrich instructed Sturm to take a halftrack and some men and investigate. The Germans engaged in a firefight with the Americans that saw Sturm wounded and his men killed. He quickly radioed Dietrich to warn him.