'A Time to Love and a Time to Die' trivia and fun facts

This is one of few American or occidental war or World War II films where the focus, subject or main characters were the enemy

Because of the film's uncommon compassionate portrayal of Germans during WW2 it was banned in Israel and the Soviet Union.

The film was entirely shot in West Germany, with a cast of Germans and Americans.

Reportedly Jean-Luc Godard's favorite out of Douglas Sirk's films