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

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

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

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

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